Comment by cdmckay

2 days ago

You could still support a subset of the most common features like bold, italic, strike, bullets, links, etc.

Isn’t the beauty of MD supposed to be that if you can’t render it it should still look fine as plaintext?

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inopinatus  1 day ago

The problem for web browsers is that markdown is technically a superset of HTML.

  • dpe82  2 hours ago

    In what ways is it a superset? What can you express in markdown that can't be expressed in HTML?

  • bborud  1 day ago

    Why is this a problem? To me it sounds like a it would be an advantage because you have everything you need to render it already built into the software.

    • inopinatus  1 day ago

      Rendering is trivial. The issue is standards, and the DOM. No-one can write a Markdown implementation for the core of any major web browser in a form that is simultaneously acceptable to both their technical and political governance.

      Best you’ll get is a plugin. Strictly arm’s reach. Translation only.