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The advantage is not having to write full html tags for example for lists (<ul><li>hi<li><ul>), when you can just use a single - to do the same thing and the te
by asutekku 6y ago
The advantage is not having to write full html tags for example for lists (<ul><li>hi<li><ul>), when you can just use a single - to do the same thing and the text will also look readable on both pure text and as formatted.
- galaxyLogic 6y agoI can see it helps with lists. And maybe with tables? I don't know if the following is valid HTML but it shows 3 list-items perfectly in my browser: <li> one <li> two <li> three There are pros and cons. I don't mind having to type a few html-tags here and there when most of my content is just plain paragraphs anyway. I can keep a list of HTML snippets handy I need daily, and copy and paste them into my text.
- DocTomoe 6y agoYou are proposing the use of malformed HTML, which often leads to weird, and hilarious problems further down the road.
- galaxyLogic 6y agoYet, isn't all markdown more or less "malformed", as long as there is no real standard for the syntax? It can lead to weird and hilarious problems further down the road when a new or different Markdown translator is used somewhere else. :-)
- asutekku 6y agoHow is markdown malformed? Everything is either between characters or on a different row. Malformed markdown simply looks wrong.
- galaxyLogic 6y agoBy "malformed" I mean "not syntactically valid". And how could you be syntactically valid if there is no official syntax specification? Now let's assume there is such a thing as "Official Specification of Markdown -syntax". That would be great. But we know that there are many different markdown variants, so the markdown I write is most likely syntactically invalid, or "more or less malformed" according to at least some of the variants. More or less.
- asutekku 6y agoThe only difference among different markdown interpreters is that some support more features than others. **something** is going to be bold on all of them.
- DocTomoe 6y agoWhich doesn't really compare, given that differently from Markdown, HTML is, in fact, standardized.
- asutekku 6y ago- one <li> one The first one still more readable. The advantage of markdown is that it’s readable both formatted and unformatted.