This is genius

[nicola]

This is incredible work, having such small and concise semantic for something so difficult.
Thanks for the great work. (Documentation on this particular module is needed, it is very powerful)

Ciao

[marcelklehr]

Thanks for the feedback! :) I'm going to add some examples as well as an explanation of how it works.

[johanneswilm]

Is this working 100%of the time without any issues? Or is this mostly a research project?

[marcelklehr]

Hey @johanneswilm! (We met before in diffDOM's isues, I believe :))
I'd like to say it's working 100% of the time, but you know how it is... Check out http://beta.hivejs.org/documents/2 to see a demo (about 60% availability, atm ;))

[johanneswilm]

Hey, @marcelklehr, Yes, indeed, we did! Great to see this come along. I see you are using CKeditor, etc. on top of it, and that seems sensible to me. As you probably have found out, every few months there is someone who tries to launch a micro-library to run with contenteditable and that usually works well for a simple demo, but badly for real content work. It's also dangerous, because many of these projects are able to attract decision makers in organizations who don't understand why this is all so complex.
We switched away from using diffDOM to prosemirror a few months ago, mainly because it took so extremely many resources to try to maintain our own editor code on top of contenteditable in a way that would work across all browsers. In future versions of the popular large editing engines, it is my understanding that they all are moving toward using a model that holds the document contents and the contenteditable just being used to get input from the user.
diffDOM has taken on a life of its own though and is being used by various other projects.
Should you come across major issues with the contenteditable, let me tell you that in the W3C editing taskforce we are trying to create a new and simpler interface where the JavaScript will get to decide most things, and we like to hear from projects such as this on what issues they currently have in that regard.