Comment by foolfoolz
6 years ago
i actually disagreed with a lot of these. markdown is opinionated. the feature set is limited. the output looks almost all about the same. this is the goal.
no one wants the myspace outcome of simplifying messages. you usually don’t need much styling but the tools that markdown includes are good enough. if you need more you probably want to ask why you’re writing in a place that only accepts markdown
> markdown is opinionated.
This. If I were to guess, Gruber made Markdown to make writing for his blog easier. Then he made it available for whoever wanted to use it too, which was very nice of him.
Given how there are already multiple flavors of Markdown available that address various shortcomings, I don't know if there's a point to critiquing Gruber's original version of Markdown since it was likely created to satisfy his writing requirements first and foremost.
So are you saying that you disagree with the current “hmtl as superset” version of markdown? Or are you saying that it’s good that he didn’t go all the way and support markdown-in-html-in-markdown because the halfway point makes it perfectly half usable for the point of having html in the first place?
Markdown is great but there are some minor points where it fails spectacularly with only minor tweaks needed to improve it tremendously. Also code ticks at its point to most are just considered part of “standard” markdown.