Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas
Tasfer is a text editor built on HTML5 canvas instead of the problematic contentEditable API, ensuring consistent rendering across browsers and devices. It operates locally with no accounts, using CRDTs and encrypted WebRTC for peer-to-peer collaboration. The open-source project includes LaTeX math rendering, syntax highlighting, tables, and a calendar, running on web and native platforms.
Key signals
- 01Canvas rendering replaces contentEditable for consistency
- 02Local-first with encrypted peer-to-peer sync
- 03Open source, cross-platform with rich features
Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas is on the Hacker News front page right now, submitted by hamza512b.
Almost every text editor on the web is built on contentEditable, an old browser API full of quirks. I built Tasfer on a 2D canvas instead, from the ground up, with peer-to-peer collaboration and no accounts. It is now open source.
— hamza.se
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