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Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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post #6

I like it a lot, both concept and execution. Little nitpicking: > Create a webpage by just writing markdown, nothing else! The „nothing else” bit looks inaccurate, there’s a script tag at the very beginning.

Nitpicking more: raw html (including script tags) is valid markdown! So it technically is markdown and nothing else.

haha. thanks @boffinism

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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post #5

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.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

#13
post #7

A neat party trick, but what actual use-case is there that isn't better served by server-side Markdown to HTML conversion?

Sometimes I just want to get some information out there on the internet, and rather than sharing a Evernote page or having to create a webpage I can just write markdown.

Main use-case is when I want to share a markdown doc in a private GitHub repo, with a public url e.g http://oscarmorrison.com/md-page/oimasdoijasdmadeupurl-01231...

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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http://oscarmorrison.com/md-page/ shows only a blank page on firefox. I even disabled NoScript for the site. Thanks, I'd rather have plain HTML.

Just tested in on FF 62. Seems fine. But yeah I have really only tested it on chrome

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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post #7

A neat party trick, but what actual use-case is there that isn't better served by server-side Markdown to HTML conversion?

Sometimes I just want to get some information out there on the internet, and rather than sharing a Evernote page or having to create a webpage I can just write markdown. Main use-case is when I want to share a markdown doc in a private GitHub repo, with a public url e.g http://oscarmorrison.com/md-page/oimasdoijasdmadeupurl-01231...

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Btw, I got an SSL certificate error when I went to check out your site. I know there's a few different ways to account for this when serving up a website from github, but I'd welcome guidance on what the best practice is for fixing this.
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