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Some very basic html with no css would be much easier to read than parsing markdown in my head. Machines should do machine work, not people. Edit: still love i
by samat 8y ago
Some very basic html with no css would be much easier to read than parsing markdown in my head. Machines should do machine work, not people.
Edit: still love idea and execution, thanks for sharing!
- spdionis 8y agoWhat markdown? I don't see markdown anywhere.
- samiralajmovic 8y agoHeaders in markdown are denoted as # and bullet points as * or - usually.
- squanch 8y agoThe "# headlines", the "* bullet points" would parse as valid markdown. Which would give the headlines visual style to distinguish them from the other part of the content.
- tobyhinloopen 8y ago/r/wooosh?
- wccrawford 8y agoI think a good portion of it would parse as Markdown, but I don't think that was the intent. There's at least 1 header that isn't actually a typical header's content.
- furyofantares 8y agoThis is kind of a funny comment, markdown was designed specifically to be readable as-is, which is why so much of it’s syntax looks like conventional email and other plain-text usages that predate it.
- throwaway123156 8y agoTrue, but markdown was meant to be readable for a markup language. Which is likely still less readable than something whose sole purpose is to present to humans, such as HTML/CSS.
- marssaxman 8y agoI never got the sense that markdown was even designed, per se - the original markdown.pl script, so far as I understand it, was not intended to implement a formal language at all; its attitude was pure descriptivism, simply rendering what the author thought of as "plain text" in a more typographically-pretty format.