High praise for Markdown

[Alastair]

Aaron Swartz wrote:


>At a party the other night, the author of a client-side GUI weblog

>editor with a WYSIWYG editor came up to me. 'Oh, Markdown,' he said.

>'Would you believe it? My users are asking me for Markdown support!' I

>cheered. 'You cheer, perhaps, but what about me? What could they

>possibly want Markdown for when they already have WYSIWYG?'

>  

>

Possibly because the web, and hence weblogs, are not WYSIWYG?

Pardon the blogpimpin' but I ranted on just this topic recently: 
http://girtby.net/archives/2005/06/13/this-is-what-you-see-this-is-what-you-get/

BTW you obviously go to more interesting parties than I do... :)