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Okay, I have a bunch of things to say/rant on this.

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Maggie

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@Mappletons

· Apr 23

Replying to @thunknotes

Expect you've already read it, but dropping the ref for others. @kmelve wrote up a good piece on markdown earlier this year: smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/though

Appreciate your thoughts on this. Interop is obviously one of the strongest arguments for markdown. Have you considered it from the perspective of a non-dev / non-technical user? Who has no idea what markdown is and just wants to create rich, visual docs without strange syntax?

Bruno Winck

@brunowinck

Apr 23

Keep in mind that most extensions done by so called Tft recently are not in markdown: Wikilinks, queries, /codes, blockref etc So the portability of the markdown describe in the article is marginally applicable to the one used in Tft. Lots of beliefs, not enough evidence

Bruno Winck

@brunowinck

Apr 23

" the perspective of a non-dev / non-technical user ... just wants to create rich, visual docs without strange syntax" There was a thing, 30 years ago, called Word on Windows, used by millions of people. Allowed to do beautiful pages with zero coding knowledge, and wysiwyg :)

Bruno Winck

@brunowinck

Apr 23

It was very cheap, like $100 for lifetime, local first, could be saved as rdf which is a portable text format) , could be encrypted

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We’ve regressed so much 😄

9:38 PM · Apr 23, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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still used a lot. People have such a short memory, they think they invented something new but they just went back 20 years. Weird

All of HCI is just a video on loop at this point. Although we should give the new reinventions of Word a bit more credit for having a 1-click “publish to web” button. Democratising publishing and all that jazz. The WordArt isn’t as good though

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