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It's easier to read? It's easier to write?
it is just as easy to read and write as markdown, and it does not require javascript libraries to be rendered
[Markdeep]( https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html ) has waaay more features than this.
[Markdeep]( https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html ) has waaay more features than this.
The flicker when loading the page sucks. I guess displaying Markdown in case of failure is not the worst thing, but it would be nice if there was a possible way to allow getting rid of the flicker at the cost of not having a graceful fallback. One way you could accomplish this is by supporting script tags for this, like wrapping the page in: ... ...as an optional way to use the library. Browsers won't (shouldn't?) tr…
[Markdeep]( https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html ) has waaay more features than this.
Here [1] is the list of "features" HN supports in the comment section.
The flicker when loading the page sucks. I guess displaying Markdown in case of failure is not the worst thing, but it would be nice if there was a possible way to allow getting rid of the flicker at the cost of not having a graceful fallback. One way you could accomplish this is by supporting script tags for this, like wrapping the page in: ... ...as an optional way to use the library. Browsers won't (shouldn't?) tr…
example.html:
# Header
Welcome to my simplest site
- A
- awesome
- list
document.write("");
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = "https://unpkg.com/showdown";
document.head.appendChild(script);
var noframes = document.querySelector('noframes');
script.onload = function() {
var converter = new showdown.Converter({
emoji: true,
underline: true,
})
converter.setFlavor('github')
main.innerHTML = converter.makeHtml(noframes.textContent)
};
});[Markdeep]( https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html ) has waaay more features than this.
So does HTML/CSS+JS. A project aiming at simplicity probably isn't one to criticize for lack of features.
A neat party trick, but what actual use-case is there that isn't better served by server-side Markdown to HTML conversion?
1. You are editing documents locally on your computer. This lets you double-click to view nice markdown in a web browser with a `file://` url.
2. You are editing a website, but don't have control over the server-side code.
3. You don't want to install a markdown rendering library on the server.