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you can distribute websites as markdown! Return markdown with a plain text content type and it'll show as markdown, which was designed to look good as-is and no
by madeofpalk 4y ago
you can distribute websites as markdown! Return markdown with a plain text content type and it'll show as markdown, which was designed to look good as-is and not require rendering to HTML
- cxr 4y agoMarkdown is supposed to (be able to) look good as-is. Most people's Markdown doesn't look good as-is, though. They target the GitHub renderer and come from the GitHub-listing-as-a-product-landing-page school of thought, so even project READMEs are generally a mess.
- madeofpalk 4y agoPresumably if you want to "distribute digital artifacts in the format that is most useful for editing or creating derivative works", like parent said, you would make it look good.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThat means you distribute the best you have. It doesn't obligate you to use better methods.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoExactly this. I was paraphrasing the definition of source code from the GPL: "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."
- cxr 4y agoThis isn't an unknowable hypothetical. No need to presume anything. Markdown found in the wild is a mess. The GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer even encourages it.
- jmull 4y agoThis is a really good point. (I should have/wish I had brought it up in my original post!