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Keep in mind that it’s not all about simplicity. One of the selling points of MarkDown is that it’s legible even when left in its plain text source format. HTM
by k_sze 5y ago
Keep in mind that it’s not all about simplicity. One of the selling points of MarkDown is that it’s legible even when left in its plain text source format.
HTML is ugly when left in its source format.
- cxr 5y agoI'd wager that GitHub is one of the biggest publishers of larger-than-bite-sized Markdown documents, and this "selling point" (an argument which I both agree with about [original] Markdown and agree that this is a good property) is pretty much untrue for any given piece you'll find on GitHub. This is thanks to several factors including "GitHub-Flavored Markdown" differing so wildly from the original flavor, and the typical GitHub user just not giving a shit about how the raw form looks—treating it as just another non-WYSIWYG formatting language in the vein of HTML or TeX, since all they're really after most of the time is for their README to work as a substitute for a product landing page.