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The original markdown parser supported html because it was basically just a preprocessor that added some syntactic sugar to html. The proposal here isn't just "
by bccdee 4y ago
The original markdown parser supported html because it was basically just a preprocessor that added some syntactic sugar to html. The proposal here isn't just "what if browsers had a markdown preprocessor" (although I also think that would be questionable), but "what if browsers limited content down to only markdown, so that the web was all just clean, style-agnostic documents," and that clearly requires that markdown not support arbitrary html.
- toastal 4y agoThat would be the worst world. I love that we have semantic and accessible elements and Markdown is pretty bad in both those categories.
- inopinatus 4y agoHaving re-read the article, i must say that this is another incorrect claim. It proposes no such thing. This is one straw man after another. All it actually suggests is this: > Let's have markdown rendering in all major browsers soon