What's wrong with the one given? If my cursor moves because some other user makes some other text bold, that doesn't sound like a desirable experience?
Because it doesn’t highlight a particularly relevant deficiency of the CRDT protocol. Preserving cursor position is not hard in that case. The post even mentions stronger downsides of OT, the example does not support the conclusion. Why is OT better?
Preserving the position of the cursor is a crucial feature for collab editors. However, he doesnt go into detail explaining why CRDTs make this feature impossible. Sure the CRDT route splits the text, but I fail to see why that makes cursor pos preservation impossible?
It's not impossible, particularly in cases where the model is fairly flat.
In complex models it is symptomatic of a larger issue with complexity in CRDTs; the post was already quite long and I didn't want to repeat any more of the research I'd linked to.
