Prevent Default — The Future of Authoring Tools – Mihai Cernusca / Front-Trends 2017

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Today’s devices are built around the web browser and chances are good every document you share will be delivered over the web — yet our tools still enforce the limitations of paper.

The web acts as a true equalizer crossing physical borders, walled gardens and is the purest expression of the digital medium in use today. The truly accessible, portable document format of today is the website and to fully realize the potential of this medium we need to rethink what general purpose (productivity) software for the web can be.

In this talk we’ll start from the observation that if you strip everything away the web should reduce to plain text. Through a series of case studies we’ll examine the historical challenges and possible future of text editing on the web.

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