The current lib used for Markdown is toastui, and it has some issues: the main one is the "viewer" requires actively being tied to a DOM element. Currently we use a hidden div. This is a performance hit and ugly. Ideally rendering HTML from Markdown is done in a Web Worker in the background as demonstrated in marked.js.org.
slominskir
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The current lib used for Markdown is toastui, and it has some issues: the main one is the "viewer" requires actively being tied to a DOM element. Currently we use a hidden div. This is a performance hit and ugly. Ideally rendering HTML from Markdown is done in a Web Worker in the background as demonstrated in marked.js.org.
The toastui editor has some focus quirkiness as well: https://github.com/JeffersonLab/jaws-admin-gui/issues/10
There are a bunch of alternatives, but it's just going to be time consuming to evaluate and find a better one such as: