I think the author's right on one point, and very wrong on the other.
For the majority of the population, a Markdown editor, much as I would like it (if only because I'd not get frustrated by Reddit's _italic_ vs. HN's stars) would be confusing. WYSIWYG or WSYWYM editors with structural elements (headers, italics, quotes) would be better.
But I also don't think this has any place in the web client. Which has, frankly, come to do too much, poorly, and with vast gaping deficiencies in privacy and security.
I'd far rather, say, that Pocket were my browser. A tool I could use, organise various modes of Web use, strip away almost all site formatting, and, in something that it doesn't now have, present me with an editor.
Which would be a simple GUI WYSIWYM tool by default, but could be swapped out for the user's choice of alternate editor and markup language (within reason).
For me, vim and Markdown. For others, well, whatever idiotic tools you like (that's a joke, boys and girls). But that's the point: to fit your working preferences.
The site could specify its submission format (which ought be something like Markdown, or a very simplified HTML subset), but that could be handled through conversion engines (see Pandoc for an excellent one).
Your initial submission would be maintained in state client-side (and, optionally, replicated to your private or dying-unicorn Cloud provider, Github repo, etc.).
But typing into tiny little text-boxes, with any stray keyboard or mouse move sending me skittering off into oblivion? Fix that shine, to apply some fundamental word substitutions.
if i wrote an article on web-based editors,
and my footnotes didn't work (because they
were tagged with "name" instead of "id"),
i'd be embarrassed. but maybe that's just me.
We had some less-than-intelligent JavaScript intercepting those links, and I neglected to check that it was working — all fixed now. Appreciate the constructive comment.
i appreciate that you realized the comment was constructive,
even if it was phrased (intentionally) in an ambiguous way, because it was still a bug-report, nevertheless. in an age
when people far too often leap to the wrong interpretation,
a small dose of generosity will frequently go a very long way.
thanks. i _was_ taking my own advice when i wrote my comment.
(in a nutshell, act positively, interpret generously, and
phrase ambiguously, to see how your colleagues react to it.)
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 32.4 ms ] threadFor the majority of the population, a Markdown editor, much as I would like it (if only because I'd not get frustrated by Reddit's _italic_ vs. HN's stars) would be confusing. WYSIWYG or WSYWYM editors with structural elements (headers, italics, quotes) would be better.
But I also don't think this has any place in the web client. Which has, frankly, come to do too much, poorly, and with vast gaping deficiencies in privacy and security.
I'd far rather, say, that Pocket were my browser. A tool I could use, organise various modes of Web use, strip away almost all site formatting, and, in something that it doesn't now have, present me with an editor.
Which would be a simple GUI WYSIWYM tool by default, but could be swapped out for the user's choice of alternate editor and markup language (within reason).
For me, vim and Markdown. For others, well, whatever idiotic tools you like (that's a joke, boys and girls). But that's the point: to fit your working preferences.
The site could specify its submission format (which ought be something like Markdown, or a very simplified HTML subset), but that could be handled through conversion engines (see Pandoc for an excellent one).
Your initial submission would be maintained in state client-side (and, optionally, replicated to your private or dying-unicorn Cloud provider, Github repo, etc.).
But typing into tiny little text-boxes, with any stray keyboard or mouse move sending me skittering off into oblivion? Fix that shine, to apply some fundamental word substitutions.
I frequently do on Linux, however, either from a standalone vim session or using the it's all text Firefox extension. X clipboard supports that well.
i appreciate your constructive comment.