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Is any group working on standardizing and implementing native support for markdown in the browser? What are the major obstacles?
by tantalor 10y ago
Is any group working on standardizing and implementing native support for markdown in the browser?
What are the major obstacles?
- Someone1234 10y agoWhat is the value in that? Markdown has two substantial benefits: Easy to store format that is easy to convert into HTML. All native support would do is lot in a specific Markdown feature set, specific markdown styling, and specific Markdown syntax. If you then tried to make a browser supported subset of Markdown that you then allowed to be customised, you'd wind up with so much goop that nobody would be happy. Also, this: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/