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Taylor Hadden
@Cptn_ChillPill
Okay, I have a bunch of things to say/rant on this.
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@Mappletons
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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
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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
@Mappletons
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?
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Bruno Winck
@brunowinck
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
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Bruno Winck
@brunowinck
" 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 :)
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Bruno Winck
@brunowinck
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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Bruno Winck
@brunowinck
still used a lot. People have such a short memory, they think they invented something new but they just went back 20 years. Weird
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