High praise for Markdown

[John Gruber]

Aaron Swartz <aaronsw at gmail.com> wrote on 07/20/05 at 7:56 pm:


> 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?'


And I think the smart weblog-editor developers will do more than
just support "live previewing" of Markdown-formatted posts -- the
clever thing would be to make it easier to make your Markdown look
good -- tools for rewrapping list items and blockquotes so the
indentation looks good, for example.

-J.G.