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(12-27-2016, 12:25 PM)PaulD Wrote: Why did you choose markdown and not a wysiwyg editor? Markdown is like marmite. People either love it and use it with enthusiasm or (like me) hate it and will not use it. To me it always seems a bit backward to show code tags (of any sort) to a user. But I appreciate that most wysiwyg editors produce such garbage and verbose html. I have always fancied having a go at coding my own wysiwyg but cannot help but think they produce such messy html because it is inevitable, and that whatever I coded would only end up inevitably doing the same.

Yeah, I get the love/hate of Markdown. I'm actually in the middle, I guess.  

My loathing of WYSIWYG editors is only rivaled by Wordpress.  Those things create so much bloat (especially in the database) and extra junk it's pretty easy to get in a loop of style="6000 characters for each tag" in the html tags overriding almost all of your default CSS... and then one has angry customers.  

Any experience I've ever had with WYSIWYG developers ended up with "You're not using it correctly"...  one of which was back in the PyroCMS days trying to write LEX parser tags and the editor "correcting" it for me...  and then one has angry customers because their site is broken.

I *may* end up offering a 'switch' for admins to use a WYSIWYG editor and allow them to post html for posts/pages but for now, I'm just leaving it at Markdown.

Pro tip...  I'm not currently stripping tags in the markdown lib... but even if I did, It'd be fairly trivial to swap in a WYSIWYG editor in the Admin.  Of course, that'd be for experienced developers.  There'll be docs about it I'm sure.
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Open Blog - Relaunch - by enlivenapp - 12-15-2016, 05:42 PM
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RE: Open Blog - Relaunched - by enlivenapp - 12-21-2016, 02:28 PM
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RE: Open Blog - Relaunched - by PaulD - 12-22-2016, 05:26 AM
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RE: Open Blog - Relaunched - by enlivenapp - 12-26-2016, 08:20 PM
RE: Open Blog - Relaunched - by PaulD - 12-27-2016, 12:25 PM
RE: Open Blog - Relaunched - by enlivenapp - 12-27-2016, 12:45 PM
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