I guess "rendering" could be interpreted as "deriving a DOM to be formatted via CSS" though.
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Replying to @RichFelker
I was going to say, the qualities you just attributed to Markdown are exactly the ones originally attributed to HTML.
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Replying to @gnomon
Yeah but somehow people use Markdown correctly whereas HTML was never used correctly.
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Replying to @RichFelker
"people use Markdown correctly"!?!? Have you _seen_ the Common Mark test docs?!
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Replying to @gnomon
Don't see how that follows. Yes there are "interesting" parser corner cases & consistency/well-definedness may be desirable...
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Replying to @RichFelker @gnomon
But the worst I see of people misusing Markdown for anti-semantic visual formatting is `` in place of bold/emphasis & the fix when corrected
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Replying to @RichFelker
sorry, I let some recent pain leech across into our conversation as incredulity, not helping the flow at all. Beg your pardon.
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Replying to @gnomon @RichFelker
the point I should have made was that people using Markdown "correctly" depending very much on their choice of implementation.
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Replying to @gnomon @RichFelker
and the point I wanted to make after that was that the virtue of minimized divergence was mostly a side effect...
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Replying to @gnomon @RichFelker
...of how little Markdown actually tried to specify and solve. ie. its virtue is specifying a deliberately constrained domain.
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Yes, I also suspect the deliberately constrained domain is what prevents abuse.
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