Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Why not using an existant HTML5 editor?/reply (3)

Yes - there's more on this [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/07/inventing-as-we-go-building-a-visual-editor-for-mediawiki/ in the "backgrounder" blog post] about why we couldn't re-use an existing HTML editor, which otherwise would have made everything a lot easier on the VE front; however, we would still have needed to do the incredibly-hard work of building Parsoid, so it wouldn't have made things trivial.