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> It is almost 2015 and we are still typing symbols on each side of words in text boxes when we want to emphasize something. That's called markup. It's what H
by wtbob 12y ago
> It is almost 2015 and we are still typing symbols on each side of words in text boxes when we want to emphasize something.
That's called markup. It's what HTML is; it's what any plain-text format is. And it's a good thing: it's interchangeable and archiveable.
- billpg 12y agoHTML is great, mostly because it actually does the job and knows its place. Markdown and their ilk are all trying to be sorta-not-quite-HTML, but fail precisely because they are not HTML.