Boring. It's not WYSIWYG at all. Boring: It just shows the rendered markdown next to the raw markdown. More interesting would be a solution that uses the sam

Boring. It's not WYSIWYG at all. Boring: It just shows the rendered markdown next to the raw markdown. More interesting would be a solution that uses the same space to show the rendered form and for user input. E.g. as you type "cool" the asterisks disappear and instead you see the italicized word. Not WYSIWYG: What-you-see-is-what-you-get means you visually present to the user all the options available. The user should not have to happen to know a set of magic incantations. Markdown requires magic incantations. Some users know them, many users do not. If you want to eliminate toolbar buttons, do something like iOS where when you highlight a word you get hovering format buttons.