For the purposes of this article, the author seems to treat writing Markdown and HTML files as equivalent--both are plaintext. > And similar is the case with s

For the purposes of this article, the author seems to treat writing Markdown and HTML files as equivalent--both are plaintext. > And similar is the case with simple static HTML websites - a simple static page is better than all publishing platforms that can ever be created. The content in both of those formats can be read by anything that can read text, in contrast to something like Wordpess which requires a database and large application stack to view its content.