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dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-09-02 21:19:03)
I've been on vacation but getting back into work on a web scheme editor so this article hit the tech news aggregators at the right time:

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/01/text-editor/

I actually didn't know about CSS text node highlights but as the author mentioned it seems to have performance issues vs. a regular DOM tree. it wouldn't work for my use case, anyway.
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dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-09-02 21:20:30)
by far the hardest part about making a custom web-based editor is the UI. the web platform does not make things easy for you. I have written and rewritten the UI code numerous times.

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Woozle Hypertwin@woozle@toot.cat (2026-09-02 22:43:56)
@dthompson This is why I've been saying for many years now that we need something that's like HTML but is actually designed for interactive graphical apps rather than havng that ability shoe-horned in via CSS, JS, and additions to HTML.