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Same here. Nothing can be built upon Markdown mostly because it allows raw html. Many nice and solid extensions have been made for rst.
by gbog 11y ago
Same here. Nothing can be built upon Markdown mostly because it allows raw html. Many nice and solid extensions have been made for rst.
- staticelf 11y agoNot true. I personally built a markdown extension to be able to use classes. Still escaped all html.
- IshKebab 11y agoYou don't have to allow raw HTML in your Markdown. It's just nice when you have trusted input (e.g. writing a blog).
- Pxtl 11y agoIf you don't allow raw HTML, markdown doesn't support underline. I've run into this more than once with users.
- majewsky 11y agoI guess that's a feature. Underlines on the web usually denominate a link, so offering underlines for non-links would just confuse readers needlessly. (inb4 "But my use-case is different." Yes it is, but I'm talking about the web in general.)
- brute 11y agoTo quote rule #10 of Butterick's Practical Typography[1][2]: Never use underlining, unless it’s a hyperlink. [1] http://practicaltypography.com/summary-of-key-rules.html http://practicaltypography.com/summary-of-key-rules.html [2] http://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html http://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html
- Pxtl 11y agoUsers want what they want. I'm using markdown for a question text within an Android questionnaire system, and my users are MDs who don't like to be told "no, underlining is a bad idea", so our markdown is littered with <u></u>