Hi @marijn! ProseMirror is fantastic project, thank you for your awesome work.
I stuck with the following issue:
When there is a widget decoration on the line
and user type something to the end of the line
and external view.updateState(..) is happening (e.g. some event from collaboration service)
input cursor jumps to the position of the latest widget in the line.
Thanks for providing a demo. When this happens, the DOM selection as reported by the selection object is actually at the end of the line… but the cursor is shown before the text node, and subsequent typing does end up there. So there’s definitely a browser bug involved.
The question is what is triggering it and if we can work around it. Your demo is constantly causing DOM updates because of the way it creates its widget decorations (they cannot be considered equivalent to an earlier version because the editor can’t prove that the render functions are the same). You can add a key: pos to the last argument to Decoration.widget to fix that, which will speed up rendering and work around this issue (usually, I suppose).
That’s not fixing the root cause though. You could try creating a simple ProseMirror-less demo that reproduces the issue by replaying the same DOM interactions (replace the widget, twice, with plain JS when you type), and if that works, report a bug to the Chrome team.
I know this thread is old, but I’m running into this issue still. Has anyone (@vladminsky?) investigated further or posted a bug to chrome?
My use case involves cursor position creating a widget over the hovered block (and removing from the last hovered block) and it’s a pretty big UX issue since sometimes a user can be typing and text is inserted in an unintended place (no collaboration, just decorations removed/added in a setMeta dispatch). I actually tried to manually set selection after removing/adding widget but my first attempt did not work. But as you point out, prosemirror has the right internal selection from/to pointer so I don’t think this would work.
Thanks for the link @marijn , will monitor and just starred it in hopes it will gain attention
Perhaps other Prosemirror supporters / consumers / users can star it too? (How best to raise awareness that this should be done? It only takes a few seconds and a gmail account)