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cdmckay 19 hours 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?

xigoi 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Even these basics are not consistent. See my Markdown Monster:

https://git.sr.ht/~xigoi/markdown-monster/blob/master/monste...

inopinatus 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

bborud 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 10 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

pwdisswordfishy 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is it a problem for web browsers?