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Re:On yak shaving and <md-block>, a new HTML element f... by smoldesu on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:37PM (#29355903)
I thought the point of Markdown was having a style-agnostic markup language that can easily be converted to HTML...?
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Re:On yak shaving and <md-block>, a new HTML element f... by cunthorpe on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:01PM (#29356922)
> be converted to HTML

That’s kinda what’s happening here, isn’t it? Document is shipped in markdown; Component renders it.

In a way I wish websites would ship raw Markdown without the ability to style much: Reader mode by default, that’s what the web should have been. But alas.

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Re:On yak shaving and <md-block>, a new HTML element f... by throwawayboise on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:36PM (#29357463)
This is gemini/gemtext.
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Re:On yak shaving and <md-block>, a new HTML element f... by cunthorpe on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:54PM (#29357556)
The problem is that until that's part of Chrome and offered by Wikipedia, it's niche at best. You know Google is not interested because they can't place flashy ads in it.
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