The point about direction surviving sanitization is the one most guides skip — stripping attributes feels safe until an Arabic note with an English equipment code and parentheses renders backwards and the meaning changes. Treating paste as an import into a document model, rather than a clipboard dump, is also the right framing; the contenteditable default of keeping formatting is exactly how stray styles and direction markup leak in. I liked the fixture set at the end, especially reopening saved fixtures after a sanitizer or parser update — that is the check teams forget, and it is where a previously safe note quietly starts rendering differently. One thing I would add: the renderer inventory is worth extending to exported views too, like PDFs or emailed copies, since those often bypass the sanitized path entirely.
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The idea of treating pasted content as an import rather than simply accepting the clipboard HTML is really important. I also think testing the same saved note across different views is essential, because formatting that looks correct in an editor may not behave the same way in emails or exported documents. The acceptance tests make this approach much more practical for developers. Great technical breakdown!