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So markdown was inspired by the was emails were formated in plain texts, which was easily read by humans, just so that eventually through permutations, variatio

by daptaq 9y ago

So markdown was inspired by the was emails were formated in plain texts, which was easily read by humans, just so that eventually through permutations, variations and abominations people start converting this (onnce) easily readable syntax into HTML emails? great.

TuringTest 9y ago
That's because browsers don't support native Markdown formatting.
- daptaq 9y ago
  Markdown is it's own formatting environment! All it needs is a constant-width font, a concept not particularly new to the world of computers. If there were no downsides to this, and email was build from the first day on to work with HTML, then this would all be fine, but sadly (or not so sadly) this isn't the case.