If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by inetknght on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @10:28PM (#43180284)

> Why not HTML? Browsers have native basic WYSIWYG editing built in

Can you point me to a page in Firefox that I can use offline to WYSIWYG edit a hypertext document without needing to use the developer console to edit raw HTML?

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by oneshtein on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @11:54PM (#43180765)

You can use this bookmarklet to create new pages:

  data:text/html,<html%20contenteditable>

then save them as HTML-files.

You can use another bookmarklet to turn existing pages or files into editable pages.

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by tyzoid on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:10AM (#43180845)

You can't easily take text and make it red that way, only edit the existing content.

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by account42 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:56AM (#43193517)

You can add another bookmarklet for that.

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by jenadine on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @01:41AM (#43181308)

If you want to do that offline, then you shouldn't use a browser but a HTML editor. There are plenty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTML_editors

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by hakaneskici on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:24PM (#43189927)

I believe it's technically possible, but I don't know if there's a tool.

Btw, genuinely asking, what's your offline scenario? Long loong time ago, I used TiddlyWiki for a brief time period for my temp offline scenarios. Single local HTML, can edit, but not WYSIWYG.

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by inetknght on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:01PM (#43191211)

> what's your offline scenario?

Keep my data out of corporate hands without needing to run a website myself (eg, a WYSIWYG site) while not having to use some different app.

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