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One of those text-entry boxes with buttons for emphasis, list items, etc.
by billpg 12y ago
One of those text-entry boxes with buttons for emphasis, list items, etc.
- krapp 12y agoHacker News seems to have a weird fetish for its 'minimalist' UI ... probably because it has a higher than typical ratio of users who spend time behind a terminal, and due to some underlying belief that the lack of bells and whistles keeps the normies away. If they added a rich text editor there would probably be a riot. But to be fair, at least markdown is a lot cleaner than bbcode.
- billpg 12y agoI should probably point out before someone else does, that my own blog, hackensplat.com, is one of those very websites I'm complaining about. In my defence, its just a blogger.com hosted site and I'm using their comment system. I want forms to either accept plain text and allow angle brackets and stars, or accept HTML and provide an interface that hides the HTML tags. We only need Markdown and their ilk for the last generation of websites (including mine) that are behind the times.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoOr maybe people who write code for a living a) don't find it difficult to remember that fencing text with asterisks gives you italics and b) fencing text with asterisks is far, far faster than taking your hands off the keyboard and playing swoopy/pointy/clicky with a mouse.
- JetSpiegel 12y agoThere are in fact programs that don't run in the browser. Schocking, I know. But wait, there's more! Some programs don't even use Javascript!