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Rich text editors to dumbdown to markdown seems like a pretty good educational pathway to me. Might take a tech savvy person 5 seconds and a less tech savvy pe
by tylerchilds 6y ago
Rich text editors to dumbdown to markdown seems like a pretty good educational pathway to me.
Might take a tech savvy person 5 seconds and a less tech savvy person 5 weeks, but for some, they might never get it without something like dumbdown to help pave their neural network.
- filleduchaos 6y agoIt doesn't seem that great of a pathway to me. It's designed to solve a perceived problem with Markdown, without considering the problem that Markdown itself was created to solve (an easier way than HTML to write rich text in a plain text editor). What's the set of people who both have that problem and have symbols vs keywords as their only barrier to fixing it? Plus to me brackets, asterisks and other symbols are not an obscure tech thing. It's literally how tons of sites and apps do their rich text formatting - Reddit and many other forums for one, messaging apps like Whatsapp and Discord for another. From observation on e.g. Reddit, picking it up is a fairly straightforward process: - someone does fancy formatting trick - "whoa how did you get your comment to come out like that?" - "it's easy, you put blah blah [in front of/around] your text and it does blah" - [tries it out] "neat! thanks" I don't really see how having people type out "paragraph", "title", "list", etc helps with that process.