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Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#31

Post by yoavm » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 1:00 AM UTC

anchpop wrote: post #2

I like this, but I hate the FOUT that it seems to create

I don't think it has any FOUT, because the whole element is styled with "display: none;". Only after the JS is parsed, it formats the Markdown code and then re-display it.

Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#32

Post by utopcell » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 1:46 AM UTC

Neat looking. This may be useful for search discoverability also. Not all engines enable javascript and for the ones they do, it is probably not enabled for all pages, so they'll end up parsing "clean" markdown.

Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#33

Post by antman » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 6:37 AM UTC

I like markdeep.js https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html

Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#34

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 7:50 AM UTC

sudhirj wrote: post #6

I don't see how this is SEO friendly, as claimed by the site. Is the idea that because the text is already on the HTML isn't not a negative from an SEO point of view?

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Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#35

Post by andreareina » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 9:50 AM UTC

yoavm wrote: post #31

anchpop wrote: post #2

I like this, but I hate the FOUT that it seems to create

I don't think it has any FOUT, because the whole element is styled with "display: none;". Only after the JS is parsed, it formats the Markdown code and then re-display it.

I'm definitely getting FOUT. Disabling all javascript does get me a blank page (also a problem IMO), so it seems to be in the script.

Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#36

Post by erik_seaberg » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 10:27 AM UTC

kroltan wrote: post #27

crooked-v wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish browsers would include a basic Markdown renderer.

But not everyone likes Markdown, it would possibly be bloated! Maybe we should add a scripting language so that sites can use any source format they want? Oh wait.

Or we could build a big tool ecosystem around a single markup language that everything understands.

Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#37

Post by mrec » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 12:35 PM UTC

kjeetgill wrote: post #20

messe wrote: post #19

How is this remotely elegant? You're including a script to render simple formatted text, something that can be accomplished by statically compiling from markdown to HTML before serving. If you can serve static HTML, why not just do that?

It could be useful if you just want to edit a file in notepad and drop it on a CDN or fileshare without any tooling. I don't run a blog but it could be nice. I'd definitely call it elegant, though not exactly minimal. I helped run a fraternity website for a bit. If I could say, hey just download the source from chrome, tweak the bulletin in notepad, and upload it back to the ftp page that would have been great. It al…

> If you browse without JS it still works!

How does it, given that all the markdown is inside that

block?

Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#38

Post by catchmeifyoucan » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 3:40 PM UTC

Strapdown isn't in active development. PRs haven't been merged in over a few years.

Strapdown-Zeta (a fork) has the ability to load MD files from src and stuff:

https://github.com/chaitin/strapdown-zeta/blob/master/README...

Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

#39

Post by Ezhik » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 8:17 PM UTC

nacs wrote: post #30

Ezhik wrote: post #10

Please don't make websites require JavaScript to display simple text.

Did you look at the site? The "simple text" remains as simple text and works fine with JS completely off.

It's set to display:none.

Re: Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

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Post by hammerha » Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 10:38 AM UTC

catchmeifyoucan wrote: post #38

Strapdown isn't in active development. PRs haven't been merged in over a few years. Strapdown-Zeta (a fork) has the ability to load MD files from src and stuff: https://github.com/chaitin/strapdown-zeta/blob/master/README...

Thanks for the comment!

FYI, if you want to src attribute to load markdown files you need to build js files yourself as the js file in the CDN doesn't have the feature for some reason.

I've created an issue for this https://github.com/chaitin/strapdown-zeta/issues/119