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Why can't web browsers render basic markdown natively (no plugins)? Wouldn't that be a much simpler and more secure parser than HTML? A Markdown Web would look like the early Web.
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it is just as easy to read and write as markdown, and it does not require javascript libraries to be rendered
Is there a WYSIWYG simple editor for creating documents in HTML5? Something that's basically wordpad and produces pages that actually look the same on different browsers? Documentation for my projects is currently in raw ASCII because I couldn't find a satisfactory solution.
Interesting. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if is there a webserver that natively converts Markdown to HTML?
I don't know about dynamic webservers.
Why can't web browsers render basic markdown natively (no plugins)? Wouldn't that be a much simpler and more secure parser than HTML? A Markdown Web would look like the early Web.
A neat party trick, but what actual use-case is there that isn't better served by server-side Markdown to HTML conversion?
Here are three use-cases: 1. You are editing documents locally on your computer. This lets you double-click to view nice markdown in a web browser with a `file://` url. 2. You are editing a website, but don't have control over the server-side code. 3. You don't want to install a markdown rendering library on the server.
You don't have control over the server-side code, but it will let you inject tags into the content? That seems a bit weird.
Interesting. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if is there a webserver that natively converts Markdown to HTML?
I take notes and write personal documentation in Markdown for tickets and projects. Nowadays I usually write in Visual Studio Code or Vim. I can see myself using this to share pages with people. Although I wonder how my syntax highlighting will work - I guess I'll have to write a shell script to copy the .md file to .html and insert the call to the md-page.js at the top.
pandoc -s input.md -t html -o output.html
Why can't web browsers render basic markdown natively (no plugins)? Wouldn't that be a much simpler and more secure parser than HTML? A Markdown Web would look like the early Web.
Browser now _interprets_ content as markdown until end of div.
It would make user-submitted content so much better since you could just directly embed bbcode, markdown, etc. without needing to parse it to html or validate that their submission is valid html/only using approved tags, etc.