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good point. it's something I myself would also like. I'll have a think about this. I'll also have a look at ublock. I also use it, haven't had problems. Maybe you tried exactly when the site was down. Had overload problems for a few minutes.
It loaded fine for me, ublock in chrome on Linux. Nifty tool you've made - thanks for sharing :)
What are the major obstacles?
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yep, i completely agree. The only reason it's JS heavy is because it's a MVP. If this project turns out well it will end up being a simple HTML with bare-minimum javascript.
... the only reason it's complex is that you didn't have time to do something simple?
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... the only reason it's complex is that you didn't have time to do something simple?
Even though the site is simple development time has been severely dropped thanks to choosing a fairly heavy platform.
I don't think it is because the platform is "heavy" (I assume in productive features) but rather it is what you are probably most recently familiar with.
For example I have built similar CMS tools for internal documentation with Java + Postgres (markdown and mustache.java) in less than a day. The development time was quick because I know Java and SQL... and basic HTML + request response handling.
The fact is it is even easier to pump this stuff out if you don't do Javascript heavy stuff because you can use so many different languages for basic HTTP + HTML + storage. Hell you might even be able to have a RDBMS (like postgres) with a couple plugins itself power the whole thing.
This is excellent. There has been a lack of tools to solve this exact problem - wanting to get a basic site up very quickly and cheaply. Previously the best alternative was a free Firebase/Google account, and then setting up a HTML/CSS site, and deploying it. This is much faster. Thank you for building it! And please, don't be dissuaded by the other commenters. Sure, the market is much smaller than the market that Sq…
I have many informational websites like http://www.krister.ee and sometimes I register domains on a whim when I get a really good idea for a website. I decided to create a simple tool to help manage these microsites and in addition to buying a domain I can immediately fill it with demo-content using markdown. Before I get into feature creep (hero image, forms, analytics) I'd like to work on reaching an audience. Prob…
Your target market is somebody that wants to create lots of minimalist websites quickly. (those creating one personal website whose priority is getting things done likely skip the "evaluate best alternatives" step and go straight to Tumblr/Wordpress or their favourite social network.) Unfortunately, apart from polymaths that just want to share their expertise on as many discrete subjects as possible which I'm not con…
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... the only reason it's complex is that you didn't have time to do something simple?
Even though the site is simple development time has been severely dropped thanks to choosing a fairly heavy platform.
A Minimum Viable Product could be done in a few minutes with pandoc, a popular and standard tool that supports markdown to html conversation out of the box.
Add a few CSS styles and here you go! Awesome looking static pages, with 0 javascript whatsoever, based on proven battle-tested software ;)
Is any group working on standardizing and implementing native support for markdown in the browser? What are the major obstacles?
Markdown has two substantial benefits: Easy to store format that is easy to convert into HTML.
All native support would do is lot in a specific Markdown feature set, specific markdown styling, and specific Markdown syntax.
If you then tried to make a browser supported subset of Markdown that you then allowed to be customised, you'd wind up with so much goop that nobody would be happy.
Also, this: https://xkcd.com/927/
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I think it's completely fine to use JavaScript here. It would be nice to have instant page pushes. But it should be rendering the site without a loading indicator. There's no reason that should be displayed
What is a page push?
Completely useless for static sites, but nice to have while authoring.
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.
The power-user had to with HTML before markdown/restructuredtext/other came along. I'd call that an improvement.
If anything, the "elite" is powered by latex only. Which is another level of crazy entirely.