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> a programmer-driven choice for Markdown forces the Unix love of editing plain text onto everybody. If you really want revolutionary WYSIWYG interfaces that m
by kybernetyk 12y ago
> a programmer-driven choice for Markdown forces the Unix love of editing plain text onto everybody.
If you really want revolutionary WYSIWYG interfaces that much then learn programming and develop them yourself. But by then you probably will have recognized the superiority of plain text anyway.
- TuringTest 12y agoPlain text is not superior, merely more well-supported because the libraries for it have been around longer, and standards for it had been created. If adequate standards for WYSIWYIG were created, it would be definitely better than plain text from an end-user point of view. In fact, there are numerous cognitive drawbacks that can by corrected by using secondary notation (available either in WYSIWYG and markup), so unadorned plain text is objectively worse than rich text - if only good tools existed for the latter; the author is right in wanting hackers to make those ubiquitous.
- narag 12y agoPlain text is not superior, merely more well-supported... That's a very important fact. If adequate standards for WYSIWYIG were created... I wouldn't say "standard", but more like "paradigm" (nice, first time I've actually used that word). There's that "war on trees" thing that I hope gets abandoned as soon as possible.