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Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available
johanneswilm writes: Open source web-based editors such as CKEditor and TinyMCE have been available for more than a decade, and some closed source collaborative editors such as Google Docs have been available since 2007. Creating open source, collaborative, rich-text, web-based editors has proven difficult due to lack of standardization of the lower-level browser features. Now Marijn Haverbeke, the developer behind the popular CodeMirror has started such an editor, called Prosemirror, financed through a crowd-funding campaign. Meanwhile the W3C has installed a task force to rapidly standardize and fix the features needed in browsers to easily create richtext and semantic editors.
> Meanwhile the W3C has installed a task force to rapidly ...
Whoa whoa... hold on there. What version of the task force did they install? It is compatible with the current W3C? (It runs on Linux, right?) Is the source for the task force available? Is it running in the cloud somewhere as a virtual task force?
Do we have to explain that "has started" means that he's working on it, "(a)lmost available" means it's not done yet, and that those two conditions are not mutually exclusive?
Well, to be honest I think a car analogy would help.