For me, that sweet spot is a file format called Markdown, It’s plain text with just enough special sauce to plug in images, headings, code snippets and bullet points – the kinds of things I want to think about when I’m writing articles – but without having to think about layouts, fonts and typography, which are the kind of things I want to think about once every five years and then forget about until the next redesign. ![]() And at the other end, plain text is… well, it’s a bit plain, y’know?Įveryone has their own “sweet spot” – the point where you have just enough control to achieve the things you want to do, without incorporating so much flexibility that managing the options becomes a maintenance headache. Managing online web content is significantly harder than it looks - online content management is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and some very smart people have written entire books about managing the information and presentation architecture that’s required by modern websites. The problem is that they both kinda suck. At the one extreme, you can just publish plain text files – and, yes, I know there’s no such thing as “plain text”, but a UTF-8 file served with a text/plain MIME type header will be readable on just about any system that can render the alphabet it’s written in.Īt the other extreme, there’s the rich tapestry of tags, layouts and formats provided in modern HTML – grid layouts, flow layouts, drop caps, web fonts, and all sorts of wonderful typographic things that we never even dreamed of back when I started hacking web pages together in the 1990s. ![]() Writing things on the web can be harder than it looks. Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 14: Typora Posted by Dylan Beattie on
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