.md is the ccTLD for my country (Moldova), which got me excited and confused for a bit - was trying to find the connection with music in Eastern Europe. I'm not sure how to feel about such ccTLD abuse and conflating TLDs with file extensions in general.
Show HN: Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe
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#32I'm confused how this is collaborative. If a friend sends me a fiddle.md link and I change the content of the document, how do they become aware of my changes? Do I send them my link back?
Re: Show HN: Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe
#33What about user accounts where we can keep track of Fiddles, so we can organize them with tags and categories?
That's definitely something we'd want to add. At the moment we wanted to release an MVP and see if people like it before adding accounts and other features. We didn't think it was crucial to getting the core experience with the product, but we're going to keep improving it over time. For now, you could save locally or to Dropbox to avoid losing revisions. Thank you for the comment, I'd recommend signing up to the mai…
For me the only feature that's missing in Google Drive is not being able to use Markdown.
Re: Show HN: Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe
#34Very nice! I love how easy you have made it to start a new fiddle, eliminating the signup. I'm all in for less signup walls on the internet!
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The HTML generated correctly, but the actual table didn't render at all in the preview for me. Text was aligned...sort of, but there was zero white space, and no dividers. Maybe it's simply my rusty MD skills.
I think it just needs some CSS love. Switch to HTML and you can definitely see it's putting out a table—it's just not a very pretty table.
Re: Show HN: Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe
#36As 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…
It should be possible to scroll in the preview section, and then keep typing for more than one page length without any problems.
Which browser are you using? What is the bahaviour you're seeing? Does the preview "reset" to the top scrolling position?
Glad you like it :)
Re: Show HN: Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe
#37.md is the ccTLD for my country (Moldova), which got me excited and confused for a bit - was trying to find the connection with music in Eastern Europe. I'm not sure how to feel about such ccTLD abuse and conflating TLDs with file extensions in general.
While it would be nice if websites always had some connection to the country whose TLDs they're using, I think that ship has sailed. I wonder what someone from Tuvalu would have to say about it though. They handed out a lot of the best TLDs before anyone had any idea what to do with the Internet.
Re: Show HN: Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe
#38Is it a feature or a bug that the page's title tag also toggles when you toggle the preview/html button?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I've wondered about the same question, and I also personally greatly prefer markdown. I got into Python in 2002, and my recollection is that RST was introduced a few years before Markdown. Thus RST was more mature than Markdown at the time when Python documentation was a disaster zone and people were looking around for technology on which to build Sphinx. So I think RST versus Markdown for Python is more or less a "h…
Yeah you're absolutely right. RST was great when Markdown wasn't around, but Markdown is just better.
It's a bit of a toughie, the python community doesn't have much to deal with Markdown itself. pypi expects rst etc. There's also very few tools available in general, which is a huge shame.
Part of this is due to different Markdown "flavours". At this point though, Github being the largest provider of Markdown, a safe bet would be to standardize on Github's flavour and call it a day.