step into the future in 2006

[James Bennett]

On 12/30/05, Bowerbird at aol.com <Bowerbird at aol.com> wrote:

>  thus, a "view source" would show plain-text.


It doesn't already?


>  transforming the web into a place that has

>  a _plain-text_format_ as its very foundation.


It isn't already


Just because something doesn't involve angle brackets, that doesn't
mean it's any less "markup" or any more "plain text" than anything
else.


>  let's save the world from the pain of heavy markup.


To do that, Markdown would have to become just as heavy as HTML.

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