This is both fascinating and sad. It does feel somewhat reminiscent to the state of HTML (pre-HTML5) before W3C and WHATWG agreed to work together on the develo

This is both fascinating and sad. It does feel somewhat reminiscent to the state of HTML (pre-HTML5) before W3C and WHATWG agreed to work together on the development of HTML5. I suppose Google, Microsoft, Zoho, and other large companies that have implemented their own their own layout systems consider their implementation a competitive advantage and would not find it worth the effort to collaborate on a new standard to supplant contenteditable — if that is even possible.