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Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

#12

Looks good, though I wish it had emacs bindings to search back and forth and move through paragraphs and lines. I also wish it had support for various markdown extensions like table of contents and in page anchors. But certainly looks terrific.

Noted. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

#13
You might want to be careful about security. Here's a harmless (at the time of writing!) XSS vulnerability: http://writebin.io/d/GTFx9CxV

     ← that there is an example of the sort of security hole (XSS) this has. Remember: Markdown is by default a *horribly* insecure format.

Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

#18

You might want to be careful about security. Here's a harmless (at the time of writing!) XSS vulnerability: http://writebin.io/d/GTFx9CxV ← that there is an example of the sort of security hole (XSS) this has. Remember: Markdown is by default a *horribly* insecure format.

Thanks for pointing this out. Haven't had much time to consider things like this yet.

Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

#20
post #3

This looks really great, and I had fun playing around with it. One small thing that stuck out: there isn't any way to make a newline. You have to make an entirely new comment. Or is there some shortcut key I'm missing? On a lot of text editors, it's Shift + Enter.

You're right. We chose not to allow hand-wrapped paragraphs because the newlines have no effect on the resulting rendered HTML. In some cases, it will allow newlines (lists, blockquotes).

It would be great to autoindent next line when writing code blocks (that start with 4 space, for example).
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