Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
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#2Why 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.
Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
#3Why 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.
It's definitely not a can't.
Why don't they? Coordination is costly.
Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
#4Why 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.
Markdown isn't part of the HTML spec any more than BBCode, and is therefore not "native" as far as browsers are concerned.
So they could but... why should they?
> Wouldn't that be a much simpler and more secure parser than HTML?
No, because Markdown allows for raw HTML, so a compliant Markdown parser must also include a complete HTML parser.
Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
#5Why 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.
Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
#6I 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.
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#7A neat party trick, but what actual use-case is there that isn't better served by server-side Markdown to HTML conversion?
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#8[Markdeep](https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html) has waaay more features than this.
Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
#9I 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.
Thanks @posamari for the feedback, I was a bit generous with the title. I have updated HN title and GitHub Readme.
Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
#10I 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.