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> I have no idea why there are now apps that use Markdown as their back end storage format but only show styled text without the Markdown source code visible.
by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> I have no idea why there are now apps that use Markdown as their back end storage format but only show styled text without the Markdown source code visible.
Because backend storage of rich text is not a solved problem?
RTF is a horrid, over-complex serialisation. Some platforms have their own internal format for rich text (e.g. NSAttributedString) but serialisation is either lacking or platform-specific.
Writing as WYSIWYG but storing in the backend as Markdown is not an insane idea, and I say that as someone whose muscle memory has been cmd-B/cmd-I since 1992 and would never choose to actually compose in Markdown unless I had to.