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Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by zeroq on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:40PM (#47443039)
If you're still looking for a name let me suggest "hyper text".

It embodies the whole idea of having data, code and presentation at the same place.

If you're open for contributions I already have an idea for cascading styles system in mind.

Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by altruios on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:54PM (#47443272)
Every turn of the wheel someone wants to make a new one.

Maybe one day someone will invent a rounder wheel.

Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by doublerabbit on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:26PM (#47444582)
Personally I think we should move to Heptagons, they're round enough.

The wheel is what I would call, passé.

Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by altruios on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:22PM (#47445408)
Every day the wheel of society turns a little further off course.

Soon we'll be optimizing for minimizing the sides of a wheel (triangles are not the final form here...) /s

Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by keeganpoppen on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:28PM (#47447938)
nah heptagons are passé; nowadays it’s all about nonagons. xD
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by smnrchrds on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:09PM (#47448989)
I disagree. Hexagons are the bestagons.
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by Akronymus on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:16PM (#47457612)
What is a hexagon if not 4 triangles in a trenchcoat?
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by lioeters on Saturday March 21, 2026 @05:36PM (#47471681)
Some triangles are so acute though.
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by noman-land on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:18PM (#47444466)
If HTML happened again except this time it was markdown, maybe more non-nerds would be able to use it? XML just looks gnarly.
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by NL807 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:39PM (#47448071)
Problem with the markdown approach the text will become rapidly ugly with hacks, non-standard annotations to enable same features as HTML.
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by fyredge on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:06AM (#47455652)
I'm very curious. I hated how html requires angled brackets for everything and love markdown for its neatness.

What are some of the ugly hacks you've seen that were applied?

Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by cicko on Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:38AM (#47475574)
Image width.
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by FabianCarbonara on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:29PM (#47443763)
Ha, history does rhyme ;) Happy if you reach out via mail!
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by heckintime on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:09PM (#47444341)
I think he's talking about CSS
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by inopinatus on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:48PM (#47449850)
In this timeline I suggest favouring a style semantics and specification language.

[given what CSS has incrementally and inevitably become, it's my ever-firmer belief that DSSSL would've been the right choice in the first place]

Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by mncharity on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:57AM (#47456442)
> If you're still looking for a name let me suggest "hyper text".

Perhaps "WWW SPA document"? Using markdown with highly-progressive fenced blocks?

Hypertext (one word, coined 1960s) is quite a broad category. Subcategory "WWW" could fit, as TFA seems WWW-ish. A markdown document format, and progressive rendering of tags and code, seems HTML-like. Though with greater progressiveness - code blocks with streamed execution rather than merely compilation. The progressive JSON callbacks, React, integrated client and server code execution, and server-side rendering, seem closer to WWW SPA than to HTML. Though SPA files often seem more "source" than "document". And the multiple-page "App"-ness of SPA doesn't fit well. SPA seems a better fit than "full-stack". Perhaps some name analogous to "isomorphic javascript"...?

Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI by gwern on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:00PM (#47459083)
Or more precisely, isn't this reinventing notebooks (not the first JS-centric notebook either)?