try putting it in a web-page in 3 minutes. or 30 minutes.
or 3 hours. or however long it takes. it's easy, right?
then post the u.r.l., so i can copy your web-page and
have the editor work in a web-page i make in 3 minutes.
then, if you want, we can start up a discussion about
why it doesn't have some of the handy features i have
come to expect from using _other_ flavors of markdown.
a client-side javascript solution is the correct one,
but showdown/pagedown/whatever is not the right choice;
instead use chjj's nice script, perhaps in strapdownjs.
but basically, you've missed the important issue here:
it's not how to convert text coming out of the textarea;
it's how to supercharge the textarea to make it more useful
and powerful during the process of composing text within it.
Sorry for being unclear: my response was wholly about the 'understand' part. You can't integrate Stack Overflow's editor into your yen web page. I do think that a user can figure it out really quickly (the little formatting buttons above the text area and the simple markup help a lot).
um, well... perhaps i was the one who was being unclear,
since tophwells seemed to have made the same assumption.
so, just to be more specific, even though we are well past
the unofficial expiration-date for interest on this thread,
yes, i absolutely want something that the end-user can grok
_immediately_, because that should really go without saying.
but just as much, i'm thinking of something that a person
-- even an average person, with no special "tech" skills,
but merely a willingness to actually edit .html source --
could quickly understand and adapt for their own purposes.
see more in the response i will write next for tophwells.
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Try Stack Overflow's editor.
try putting it in a web-page in 3 minutes. or 30 minutes. or 3 hours. or however long it takes. it's easy, right?
then post the u.r.l., so i can copy your web-page and have the editor work in a web-page i make in 3 minutes.
then, if you want, we can start up a discussion about why it doesn't have some of the handy features i have come to expect from using _other_ flavors of markdown.
a client-side javascript solution is the correct one, but showdown/pagedown/whatever is not the right choice; instead use chjj's nice script, perhaps in strapdownjs.
but basically, you've missed the important issue here: it's not how to convert text coming out of the textarea; it's how to supercharge the textarea to make it more useful and powerful during the process of composing text within it.
-bowerbird
Sorry for being unclear: my response was wholly about the 'understand' part. You can't integrate Stack Overflow's editor into your yen web page. I do think that a user can figure it out really quickly (the little formatting buttons above the text area and the simple markup help a lot).
um, well... perhaps i was the one who was being unclear, since tophwells seemed to have made the same assumption.
so, just to be more specific, even though we are well past the unofficial expiration-date for interest on this thread, yes, i absolutely want something that the end-user can grok _immediately_, because that should really go without saying.
but just as much, i'm thinking of something that a person -- even an average person, with no special "tech" skills, but merely a willingness to actually edit .html source -- could quickly understand and adapt for their own purposes.
see more in the response i will write next for tophwells.
-bowerbird