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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by dangus on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @08:43PM (#43179727)
I'm not the parent commenter but I'm going to guess because HTML is horrible at WYSIWYG.

If your editing tool changes or if your switch editors, they will all botch your HTML anywhere you make edits.

RTF is basically "it just works," very much like "Microsoft Word Light."

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by assimpleaspossi on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:12PM (#43179867)
Your complaint seems to be about the editors, not HTML.
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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by pimlottc on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @11:02PM (#43180469)
Unless you're willing to write your own editor, that's not really a practical distinction
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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by dangus on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:47AM (#43219698)
Yes, my complaint is about the editors. But it's also a problem with HTML because with HTML you can implement a document that looks the same using multiple techniques, so editors will always have code generation differences.
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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by hakaneskici on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @08:56PM (#43179793)
Makes sense. I was thinking that browsers have native support for WYSIWYG editing and most browsers/apps are Chromium based; so how the browser handles HTML formatting should be stable for a single person scenario even across apps.
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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by oneeyedpigeon on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @05:31AM (#43182497)
HTML isn't "horrible" at WYSIWYG, it just isn't WYSIWYG. Your comment is like saying "JSON is horrible at for loops"β€”it's just a misunderstanding of the tool.
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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by account42 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:58AM (#43193533)
HTML WYSIWYG editors are not going to create worse tag soup than WYSIWYG editors for other formats. If you care about how the precise HTML cod then WYSIWYG is the wrong tool.
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