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The author is also a Sanity employee and, while I like the ideas behind the Sanity CMS, if you ever create a schema with an RTF field, you'll see the opposite e
by smoyer 5y ago
The author is also a Sanity employee and, while I like the ideas behind the Sanity CMS, if you ever create a schema with an RTF field, you'll see the opposite extreme when you read the text back via GraphQL. If Markdown was created to make the source readable, Sanity exists to make content unreadable (via expansive nested JSON for even simple tags like <b>). It's pretty easy for a paragraph of text to take 200 lines of Sanity JSON.
Like Sanity, this author has expanded three paragraphs of content into 600 lines of text. I'm an avid reader but that doesn't mean I want to reread the same reworded premise over and over.
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago> Like Sanity, this author has expanded three paragraphs of content into 600 lines of text. *snort* this is mischievous but funny.
- TuringTest 5y agoI share with the author of the article the need for a standard format for presentation-independent structured multimedia content, and that html+js+css is now too complex for this purpose. But I think that such a format should keep rich text separate from structure, in the same way that CSS keeps style separate from content. Content structure in a web environment is inherently complex, so there should be a standardized way to link markdown-style simple "pages" that have linear or shallow tree structures, to build the superstructure of a complete web site. In my opinion that lack of a specific format for structure is what is limiting the growth of common tools for rich content. Wikis are the only example I know of an attempt to create such a format, but it works by having basically no structure, just uniquely named pages and hyperlinks between them.
- benfrain 5y agoI was astonished at the length of that article as I kept reading and thinking the same, ‘isn’t this what he just said before???’ I’m happy to read long-form but I feel that piece would have benefited greatly from substantial editing