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But Markdown was advertised as "a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers" [1]. The raison d'être as you stated is not an end goal but a possible benefit.
by lifthrasiir 8y ago
But Markdown was advertised as "a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers" [1]. The raison d'être as you stated is not an end goal but a possible benefit. Gruber may have thought that the extensibility of Markdown is done by raw HTML; now we know that's not enough.
[1] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/