Svedit positioning

[michael]

A tiny library for "building editable websites" in Svelte. This is too narrow of what Svedit can be used for. Let's brainstorm better wording / tagline of what Svedit is.

[johannesmutter]

A very good textarea :D

[michael]

Hehe yeah, but I guess that puts it exactly the category of rich "text" editor widgets. Maybe we can find some angle that is on structural editing: blocks with custom but well-defined data shapes, full canvas editing, not just an island, that kind of stuff.

• "Beyond rich-text."
• "Not just a text area."
• "Everything, not just text."
• "Rich content editing" (we had that, but I guess it has no emotion at all, too formal)

[johannesmutter]

Hehe that was a reference to tldraw's "a very good whiteboard". Underselling it on purpose. But that works only for a slogan, not as general positioning:

For me svedit is:

• Notion*-like Block editor (*of course there were other block editors before, but it made the concept popular)
• Keynote like canvas flexibility
• Structured fields, without the seriousness of the semantic web or the rigidity of a tax form
• Chromeless Design
• Toolbars optional
• Client first (backend not necessary)
• Modality optional (can be always editable, too)
• Direct Manipulation/ WYSWYG

What I want it to be also become:

• Gesture driven (making toolbars really obsolete)
• Approachable like Paper
• Agent first/ Collaborative

[johannesmutter]

oh and: definitively not a widget like TinyMCE, Wordgard, etc. as in there's a toolbar, a frame around and it sits inside a UI shell.
The opposite rather: it's the entire UI, it's the canvas and other elements sit inside it.

[michael]

New tagline is simply "Editing for Svelte" with the first heading being beneath being "Structured, full-canvas content editing"

somehow all the descriptive things are boring in the tagline. Editing for Svelte is a statement. (At least a mission. :))