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There's no greater metaphor for the detachment of the tech-elite from the average user than the pervasiveness of Markdown. Its a poor answer to a problem that exists solely because of lack of coordination among the very tech-elite who rely on MD. An open spec for efficient binary encoding of formatted text is the thing we've needed for 20 years - not more MD tools.
Reminds me of Aaron Swartz's Jottit application: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/sweatsmall
There's no greater metaphor for the detachment of the tech-elite from the average user than the pervasiveness of Markdown. Its a poor answer to a problem that exists solely because of lack of coordination among the very tech-elite who rely on MD. An open spec for efficient binary encoding of formatted text is the thing we've needed for 20 years - not more MD tools.
How would this improve anything? Is there something about Markdown that makes it inherently inferior that I don't know about? I don't consider myself a tech-elite and Markdown seems just fine to me.
There's no greater metaphor for the detachment of the tech-elite from the average user than the pervasiveness of Markdown. Its a poor answer to a problem that exists solely because of lack of coordination among the very tech-elite who rely on MD. An open spec for efficient binary encoding of formatted text is the thing we've needed for 20 years - not more MD tools.
I have two questions: 1) What's the problem that's being solved? 2) And what's a good answer? I'm genuinely curious because I've never considered Markdown anything more than a way to more easily render text -- which it seems to do fine. But, maybe I've just exposed myself as an average user..
2) A good answer is another, more efficient open spec for encoding formatted text - meaning I can use any app to format my text, then open it in another app and be sure I have full fidelity. This fidelity would be constrained by a requirement of HTML output.
[1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#philosop...
just a heads up, the site was marked by my company's net filter as containing malware.
It would be great if there was a tool that let you use simple markdown, took a few options, and generated beautiful static pages like e.g. Medium with a minimum of hassles.
I guess a lot of people use WordPress with themes, or Weebly, SquareSpace but it still seems pretty complicated.
There's no greater metaphor for the detachment of the tech-elite from the average user than the pervasiveness of Markdown. Its a poor answer to a problem that exists solely because of lack of coordination among the very tech-elite who rely on MD. An open spec for efficient binary encoding of formatted text is the thing we've needed for 20 years - not more MD tools.
That's a solvable problem, though - grab some top-flight themes with appropriate licenses and you're probably good to go!
I guess I'm just an old web 1.0 guy but I just don't see and understand why everything must be done in a super dynamic way. Hell sometimes I like clicking on a link and watching the browser do the loading as it is confirmation for me the thing actually got loaded. Particularly when buying/shopping for stuff (ie traditional POST).
My major critique is that the generated sites are needlessly javascript powered. Right when I saw the "Loading" I thought oh no how many assets are going to be downloaded... for just markdown content. I guess I'm just an old web 1.0 guy but I just don't see and understand why everything must be done in a super dynamic way. Hell sometimes I like clicking on a link and watching the browser do the loading as it is confi…
But it should be rendering the site without a loading indicator. There's no reason that should be displayed