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No word of whether activating a contentEditable now opens the keyboard. That'd be a big step for lots of content-focused web apps

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Totally agree and that's the one thing I was scanning through the page looking for.

Quora's fantastic native editor is a contentEditable div and so the iPhone version has to do things completely differently which annoys me as a user.

It's the future of all editing and the only good present of rich text editing on the web.

Give me a sample URI and I'll check it for you. Or wait until I have the time to write up a naive example.

Try http://aloha-editor.org/

Well, that link is down right now, but I tried http://html5demos.com/contenteditable aaaaaand.......

It worked :)

It appeared to be a normal webpage, but as soon as I pressed in the middle of the paragraph, the keyboard sprung open and a frame surrounded the ContentEditable object.

Too bad they can't be bothered to put any pricing information online. I have a project that needs an editor, it looks really good, AGPL is not even kind of an option, and I'm willing to pay for a license. But heck if I want to deal with "contacting" somebody to start thinking if it's worth looking at.

There is a bunch of other contentEditable implementations you may want to look at, many of them under a permissive open source license:

https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/issues/121

BTW, the Aloha devs are willing to give exceptions to AGPL at least to open source projects.

Would love to hear if this is supported as well. Lack of content editable is a big pain...

On iPad2 it's supported. Someone can try it on an iPhone?

Not perfect but kb activated w/aloha. Could only get bold to work.

http://akzhan.github.com/jwysiwyg/help/examples/01-basic.htm...

Works completely on ipad. Finally!

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