Well, that’s why Markdown was popular. It took existing conventions, codified them, and more importantly, crested a tool to convert them to HTML.
At its core, Markdown was little more than a perl script that converted a human readable doc written using many online conventions into HTML.
Others realized this was a brilliant idea and created their own supersets and/or alternatives of markdown. That’s why there’s so many flavors of markdown with little tweaks.
And that’s why Markdown is popular. Because it took advantage of convention built out of years of trial and error.
rhaway84773|3 years ago
At its core, Markdown was little more than a perl script that converted a human readable doc written using many online conventions into HTML.
Others realized this was a brilliant idea and created their own supersets and/or alternatives of markdown. That’s why there’s so many flavors of markdown with little tweaks.
And that’s why Markdown is popular. Because it took advantage of convention built out of years of trial and error.