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Problem with the markdown approach the text will become rapidly ugly with hacks, non-standard annotations to enable same features as HTML.
I'm very curious. I hated how html requires angled brackets for everything and love markdown for its neatness. What are some of the ugly hacks you've seen that were applied?
I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
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Re: I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
#72I will say I came upon this same design pattern to make all my chats into semantic Markdown that is backward compatible with markdown. I did: ````assistant gemini/3.1-pro - 20260319T050611Z Response from the assistant ```` with a similar block for tool calling This can be parsed semantically as part of the conversation but also is rendered as regular Markdown code block when needed Helps me keep AI chats on the files…
> AI chats as a valid document So many formats, with different tradeoffs around readable/parsable/comments/etc. I wish there was a "universal" converter. With LLM's sometimes used to edit chat traces, I'd like ingestion from md/yaml, not merely a "render from message json". So .json `[{"role": "user", "content": "Hi"}` .md ` ```json\n[{"role": "user", "content": "Hi"}` above ` ```user\nHi` `# User\nHi` ` ```chatML\n…