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Congrats on the launch! Your product looks like the Aloha editor - how are you guys different from them?

Aloha is purely an in-place editor. However, there are times when you need an editor in a form. You either have to fudge it, or use two different editors. SnapEditor provides both, an in-place and form-based editor.

Aloha is currently sitting at over 1mb. I know that there are talks about cutting down the size, but SnapEditor is already small, coming in at around 180kb.

We have the utmost respect for the Aloha guys for making an open source editor, but it is still quite buggy. SnapEditor concentrates on providing a predictable experience with clean HTML. We built it from scratch to do this right.

Yes, Aloha was unusable for me (because at some point it breaks the HTML), and working with designMode is a PITA.

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