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Helianthus  ·  4593 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A couple minor CSS suggestions
While we're giving tips, I _need_ need __need__ some form of markup. Trying to do an inline link/citation in another topic didn't work like reddit, which is the sort of use case I presume you are considering when you're advertising directly as a reddit alternate...

I searched for some list of available things and couldn't find it.

Edit: ah, so \works\ works. And bold? -strikethrough-?

I need a place to look this stuff up!

well, you can't escape asterisks that I see. #* /*





mk  ·  4588 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Hi Helianthus. I just wanted to let you know that I did link to a markup. In the bottom right of the text box, click on the '?'.

This will be updated and extended, perhaps by John Gruber's markdown. But this is a start. -I just added bold.

exhuma  ·  4592 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Agreed.

Having done some development over the time myself, I find [markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) really easy to learn (and learn). On top of that, it's also widely used. So user's don't have to re-learn a new syntax.

Additionally, I would say, stay away from JavaScript WYSIWYG editors. From my experience, they are not yet that usable. I have to say though, they have been enormously improving over the last ten years. And maybe there is one that's working better than what I am used to.

But given that the allowed set of markup will most likely be small, there is not a lot which speaks in favor of WYSIWYG editors.

thenewgreen  ·  4588 days ago  ·  link  ·  
let's test this out
thenewgreen  ·  4588 days ago  ·  link  ·  
You may want to add this to the FAQ page !
mk  ·  4587 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Good idea.
mk  ·  4588 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks for the suggestion exhuma. I might go with markdown. I did create a link to Hubski's current markup, the ? in the lower right of a textbox.
exhuma  ·  4588 days ago  ·  link  ·  
In my apps I also have the habit to add a "markup-style" column to my db-tables containing the text-content. This allows me to change the markup later on. You never know what might happen in the future. If you have this field (in my case usually an integer) available, then you can decide to either convert the old formats to the new one, or (IMO the better solution) handle them conditionally.
mk  ·  4587 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Cool. Thanks exhuma.
mk  ·  4593 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah. I'll get that markup. You're right, it is needed.

BTW, I assume you are referring to the dailydot article. That was spun quite a bit that way... I'm not gunning for Reddit. Some of the things I have done here have been influenced by issue I had at Reddit. But I have a deep respect for that site. I had some very good times there. I went to the Rally for Sanity because of that site.

greedo  ·  4593 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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