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Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by ardy42 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:40PM (#25354680)
> Wellll.. I mean the json has markdown syntax in it. That's a lot nicer than html tags for markup, but it's still markup.

Isn't markdown literally just HTML shortcuts for a limited set of common markup cases? IIRC, it's not uncommon to have to insert HTML tagging into markdown to get certain things to work.

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Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by habitue on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:32AM (#25355927)
Markdown compiles to html, and if I had to guess, it's probably a superset of html? (Maybe, possibly not all html is valid markdown, I haven't checked)

Assuming it's a superset though, the part I was talking about above was the (markdown - html) part, where markdown adds less noisy syntax for bolding, headings, lists etc.

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