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That's why we have lightweight markup syntaxes like markdown.
by swalladge 7y ago
That's why we have lightweight markup syntaxes like markdown.
- krapp 7y agoMarkdown is a lightweight syntax for writing and generating HTML, like BBCode. It's not an alternative syntax to HTML.
- Moru 7y agoMarkdown is designed to be readable without encoding it as HTML though, so is nicely readable on old email clients too.
- krapp 7y agoSure, but then it's just plain text, and plain text could be perfectly legible before Markdown came along. The only tangible benefit Markdown provides is letting people write HTML who don't like the aesthetics of HTML tags.
- swalladge 7y agoThe idea is that it gives a standard for semantic markup that can be read as plain text. Lists, highlighted text, block quotes, etc. that is all plain text but easily parsed by humans.