From d9eb6a380e2ed4bd0423f2d153f69eb8dacb4977 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Storm Taylor Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:30:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update readme --- Readme.md | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index 043a48099..81e7e39bc 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -18,13 +18,9 @@ _**Slate is currently in beta**. It's useable now, but you might need to pull re
### Why? -Why create Slate? Well... +Why create Slate? Well... _(Beware: this section has a few of [my](https://github.com/ianstormtaylor) opinions!)_ -(Beware: this section has a few of [my](https://github.com/ianstormtaylor) opinions on the existing rich text editor landscape!) - -Before creating Slate, I tried a lot of the other rich text libraries out there. None of them were simple enough to use, but well-designed enough to handle complex use cases. - -What I found was that while getting simple examples to work might be possible, once you started trying to build something like [Medium](), [Dropbox Paper](), or [Canvas]()[Medium](https://medium.com/), [Dropbox Paper](https://www.dropbox.com/paper) or [Canvas](https://usecanvas.com/)credibly hacky things to get the user experience you wanted. And some experiences were just impossible. +Before creating Slate, I tried a lot of the other rich text libraries out there. What I found was that while getting simple examples to work might be possible, once you started trying to build something like [Medium](), [Dropbox Paper](), or [Canvas]()[Medium](https://medium.com/), [Dropbox Paper](https://www.dropbox.com/paper) or [Canvas](https://usecanvas.com/), you have to resort to very hacky code to get the user experience you wanted. And some experiences were just impossible. Here's how Slate compares to some of the existing editors out there: