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Apart from the p tag, that gets annoying when you have long stretches of prose, I find plain html5 much less annoying than markdown. Moreover, tables and hyper

Apart from the p tag, that gets annoying when you have long stretches of prose, I find plain html5 much less annoying than markdown. Moreover, tables and hyperlinks are clearer and easier to type in html5 than in any markdown flavor.

subtra3t 3y ago
Easier to type? Sure, but I don't think HTML5 tables are easier to read than markdown tables
- enriquto 3y ago
  Thanks to optional closing tags, html5 tables are quite neat: <table> <tr> <td>first row, first column <td>first row, second column <td>first row, third column <tr> <td>second row, first column <td>second row, second column <td>second row, third column </table> Does it get any better in markdown?
  - eviks 3y ago
    The fact that you need to list columns in rows already makes it NOT a table
    - bluGill 3y ago
      Both are diffult to read and work with.
      - eviks 3y ago
        both are difficult to work with since it's not the job of a data format, but table editing tooling on top of that, but the markdown tables that look like tables aren't difficult to read unlike HTML
  - subtra3t 3y ago
    I'll convert your example to GFM. | first row, first column | first row, second column | first row, third column | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------------ | | second row, first column | second row, second column | second row, third column | To me, this is more readable than the HTML version.
    - kotborealis 3y ago
      It's not fun to manually reformat those tables for readability. If I add something to the `second row, second column`, I have to add extra spaces to the `first row, second column`, or it will look janky. | first row, first column | first row, second column | first row, third column | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------------ | | second row, first column | exceptionally long second row, that makes second column look worse | second row, third column |

subtra3t 3y ago

Easier to type? Sure, but I don't think HTML5 tables are easier to read than markdown tables

enriquto 3y ago
Thanks to optional closing tags, html5 tables are quite neat: <table> <tr> <td>first row, first column <td>first row, second column <td>first row, third column <tr> <td>second row, first column <td>second row, second column <td>second row, third column </table> Does it get any better in markdown?
- eviks 3y ago
  The fact that you need to list columns in rows already makes it NOT a table
  - bluGill 3y ago
    Both are diffult to read and work with.
    - eviks 3y ago
      both are difficult to work with since it's not the job of a data format, but table editing tooling on top of that, but the markdown tables that look like tables aren't difficult to read unlike HTML
- subtra3t 3y ago
  I'll convert your example to GFM. | first row, first column | first row, second column | first row, third column | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------------ | | second row, first column | second row, second column | second row, third column | To me, this is more readable than the HTML version.
  - kotborealis 3y ago
    It's not fun to manually reformat those tables for readability. If I add something to the `second row, second column`, I have to add extra spaces to the `first row, second column`, or it will look janky. | first row, first column | first row, second column | first row, third column | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------------ | | second row, first column | exceptionally long second row, that makes second column look worse | second row, third column |