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Not quite sure what you mean by normal. But if you want a nice input field - as in it allows you to input text and does what you expect with plain text, somethi
by Blahah 3y ago
Not quite sure what you mean by normal. But if you want a nice input field - as in it allows you to input text and does what you expect with plain text, something like water.css maybe. If you want rich text, the Web was designed to offload this to js. Markdown and other similar systems were created to provide an alternative to this, but there's a barrier to entry because you want more than text. Text plus markup requires interpretation and either a ux that adds tooling or the user to do some learning.
- unshavedyak 3y ago> Not quite sure what you mean by normal. I just mean .. average users. Where a text box has some very limited features that may be thought of as the baseline, the standard, etc. Not even sure what qualifies as that, but i imagine a lot of users expect to be able to highlight text and make it bold, italics, etc. I love markdown and want to support it as the primary interface.. but i don't want to solely force it. I'd love a really, really thin layer of JS which just gives in-line highlighting for markdown, for example. I might try to make it honestly, if i can't find it. But that's a long ways down the road.