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Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

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Re: Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

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Post by codemac »

znpy wrote: post #10

I think the org-mode syntax is way superior to markdown and should be more-widely supported.

I do too - however, I've found unless you have editor support it's kind of a bear to edit by hand.

Markdown however isn't too hard with any crappy notepad.

Things like drawers, tables, #+TBLFMT: etc are pretty rough.

Re: Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

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Post by rspeer »

It's enshrined in the Drool format that every file has to start with a UTF-8 BOM and contain \r\n line breaks?

This sounds like favoring one text editor at the expense of all others, and not a good one. Is this format designed to be edited with Notepad?

Re: Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

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Post by michaelmior »

rspeer wrote: post #12

It's enshrined in the Drool format that every file has to start with a UTF-8 BOM and contain \r\n line breaks? This sounds like favoring one text editor at the expense of all others, and not a good one. Is this format designed to be edited with Notepad ?

It was at this point where I decided this was a joke. It's entirely possible I'm just missing the use case though.

Re: Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

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Post by nepthar »

Hey there, dou4cc! I think it's pretty cool that you took the time to share your project here. Is this a Show HN type post? If so, you may want to add a bit more information about your motivations for making this and wanting to share this with others.

Re: Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

#16

Post by placeybordeaux »

> For details, please visit a demo which requires your browser supporting Element.prototype.append, async functions, WebP, WebM, fetch API, CSS Variables, CSS sticky position, and full of ECMAScript 6. I recommend you use Chromium or Chrome Canary with two flags, chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony and chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features, enabled.

Yikes.

Re: Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

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Post by jonathanyc »

placeybordeaux wrote: post #16

> For details, please visit a demo which requires your browser supporting Element.prototype.append, async functions, WebP, WebM, fetch API, CSS Variables, CSS sticky position, and full of ECMAScript 6. I recommend you use Chromium or Chrome Canary with two flags, chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony and chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features, enabled. Yikes.

Back to "Works Best in IE"? All of these things can be done without using experimental APIs. It may be a few dozen lines longer, but its not worth having to tell people to use Chrome Canary to test your project. As a Firefox user, this is a complete no-go.

Re: Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

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Post by intAligned »

falsedan wrote: post #6

This is what it looks like: * This demo is also a guide when you view the source of this page at the same time. to insert a picture drool code @@ ./demo.jpeg result @@./demo.jpeg to insert an audio and a video drool code @@ ./demo.mp3 @@ https://videos.cdn.mozilla.net/uploads/mozillaorg/Mozilla_2014_i_am.webm result @@./demo.mp3 @@https://videos.cdn.mozilla.net/uploads/mozillaorg/Mozilla_2014_i_am.webm to insert a li…

This would be the output if my version of Chrome (latest) was able to run it:

https://github.com/dou4cc/drool/blob/gh-pages/screenshot.en....

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