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paddyobrien
July 23, 2015
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Taming Contenteditable with Ember.js
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Taming Content Editable with Ember.js
[email protected]
You built your own content editor?!
3 We have lots of places where our users can
write messages
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8 We need precise control of how our users write
their messages.
9 We want to make it easy to create rich
and beautiful messages
So yeah, we built our own content editor
What is content editable and why it is terrible
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14 Behind this simple property lies deep wells of despair
What happens next? <div contenteditable> d| </div>
What happens next? Chrome d| d <div>|</div> becomes
What happens next? d| d <div>|</div> becomes Safari
What happens next? d| d <p>|</p> becomes IE11
What happens next? Firefox d| d <br>| <br type=“_moz”> becomes
None
contenteditable • What about backspace? • <p> has a line-height
of 1.5em Chrome becomes <p contenteditable> d|d </p> <p contenteditable> d|<span style="line-height: 1.5em;”>d</span> </p>
22
https://speakerdeck.com/patocallaghan/contenteditable and much, much more….
24 Why does this matter?
25 If you can’t guarantee consistent markup, you can’t guarantee
consistent display
26 So how did we tame this?
27 Don’t try to build a HTML editor, try to
build a block editor
None
29 Use the good bits over-ride the rest.
30 Hide as much complexity as we can behind an
API
Block Selection do Stack Block List The DOM Composer component
The BOM
The BOM The DOM Editor View Event Handling DOM Selection
UI Coordinates Rendering Composer component
The BOM Composer State BOM Selection Undo Stack Blocks The
DOM Editor View Event Handling DOM Selection UI Coordinates Rendering Composer component Commands
Composer State The BOM
Composer State Undo Stack The BOM
Composer State Block Selection Undo Stack The BOM
Composer State Block Selection Undo Stack Block List The BOM
Composer State Block Selection Undo Stack The BOM Paragraph Item
Ordered List Block List
Paragraph Composer State Block Selection Undo Stack Block List Item
Ordered List Command • Backspace • Delete • Return • Sync • Insert Attribute • Insert Character • Insert Block • Paste • ...
None
Blocks Paragraph text: “hello there” Entities Italic (0 -> 5)
Bold (6 -> 14) Selection: 0:0:1 → 0:0:1
Blocks Paragraph text: “hello there” Entities Italic (0 -> 5)
Bold (6 -> 14) Selection: 0:0:2 → 0:0:9
Blocks Paragraph text: “hello there” Entities Italic (0 -> 5)
Bold (9 -> 14) Selection: 0:0:2 → 0:0:9
Blocks Paragraph text: “hello there” Entities Italic (0 -> 5)
Bold (2 -> 14) Selection: 0:0:2 → 0:0:9
45 So now you have an editor
Syncing
Syncing UI Event Command Mutate BOM Rerender
Syncing UI Event Command Mutate BOM Rerender? Can Browser handle
it? No Do Nothing Yes
Syncing UI Event Command Mutate BOM Rerender? Can Browser handle
it? No Do Nothing Yes Should we let the BOM know? Yes
Undo Stack github.com/intercom/ember-undo-stack
51 Demo Time
How Ember helped
53 A decent Object Model
Computed Properties as a free caching mechanism
Components are helpfully strict
Ember CLI addons ❤️
Thanks for listening!
[email protected]
Questions?