I was thinking with this idea for some time and the killers features for me are:
- Allow custom CSS
- Post a json with the markdown content to a custom URL
Do you plan to open source it?
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#12@ggordan : is it using etherpad api for backend ?
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#13@ggordan : is it using etherpad api for backend ?
We're not using etherpad. The backend is written in Go and hosted on appengine, and on the front end we use React.
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#14Collaborative editing is great, and I wonder if this project could be adapted as some sort of browser extension that would allow teams to collaboratively edit on pages that don't otherwise support it. For instance, the project-management software my team currently uses does not allow us to collaboratively edit tickets. Sometimes we've resorted to writing tickets together in Google Docs and then transferring the text…
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders at Swipe, thank you so much for the comment! That's a really interesting idea. Our scope with this is very narrow now and we wouldn't want to promise something like that at the moment. But it's something we haven't thought about before, it sounds really useful.
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#15> Over Quota > This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
We're working on fixing that now. It should be back up very soon! Edit: It's back. Thanks for the patience.
Great! Looks very good! :)
Although, table-support seems to be very limited. The table is generated correctly, but it doesn't look nice enough. Take a look at LightPaper for inspiration.
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#16I love the syntax helper in the bottom. I've added markdown to a few projects and usually, I just added a help text summary near the input to remind users of the syntax; this is a much better solution.
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#17I was thinking with this idea for some time and the killers features for me are: - Allow custom CSS - Post a json with the markdown content to a custom URL Do you plan to open source it?
Yes, we plan to open source it :)
If we can allow custom CSS in a secure way, why not?
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#18Looks interesting... Dark theme?
That's a very good idea, we've added it high up on the suggestions list. Very handy for writing at night probably. Thank you!
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#19As soon as the content is over a page long, the "preview" doesn't really work, since what is supposed to be previewed is out of bounds.
I had developed a few years ago a markdown editor with live preview, with a mechanism that synchronized the source and the preview, scroll-wise, so the preview would always display the part that was being edited.
It didn't take off (at all) so I let it go, but I wish there would be a standardized way to do this.
Other than that, great tool! Thanks for sharing.
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#20These types of projects are all really awesome; I just wish they would support RestructuredText.
No offense and all (I'm a huge python guy) but... why? RST is a pretty god damn awful format. Markdown lacks a proper standard but that's really the only problem with it... I wish the python community would just adopt Markdown for good and stop trying so hard with rst.