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.
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#12Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
#13A neat party trick, but what actual use-case is there that isn't better served by server-side Markdown to HTML conversion?
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...
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#14[Markdeep]( https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html ) has waaay more features than this.
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#15I even disabled NoScript for the site. Thanks, I'd rather have plain HTML.
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#16http://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.
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#18Honestly, I prefer writing directly plain html5 with implicit tags. I cannot see any advantage of markdown over html for this particular usage.
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#19And for other markup languages, e.g. Dr [2] for AsciiDoc.
[1] https://github.com/Xeoncross/jr [2] https://github.com/jonathonf/Dr
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#20A 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...