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📝 the simplest and smallest WYSIWYG text editor for web, with no dependencies

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 3 stories, 3 comments · first 2017-07-10 · latest 2025-08-18

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  1. …right now, but someone here mentioned spell/pell https://github.com/sylvainpolletvillard/spell and https://github.com/jaredreich/pell and so they are in the size of 1kb-2kb, even bytes and this is 40kb iirc, so why is there such a big size…
    comment by Imustaskforhelp · 2025-08-18 · in Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
  2. Interesting. Filed an issue to track this idea: https://github.com/jaredreich/pell/issues/33
    comment by jaredreich · 2017-07-13 · in Pell – A simple and small rich-text editor for the web
  3. This library is using execCommand: https://github.com/jaredreich/pell/blob/master/src/pell.js I note that `contenteditable` itself began as a proprietary DOM/HTML extension by Microsoft in IE5.5 back in 2000 - Gecko didn't support it until…
    comment by DaiPlusPlus · 2017-07-13 · in Pell – A simple and small rich-text editor for the web