markdown via css?

[Nathan Steiner]

There are really too many problems with this to be practical, but in  
case its of any interest I was able to get part-way towards making an  
htm2txt simulator using only CSS.

The CSS does all the work via the :before and :after pseudo selectors  
and the "content" property. An interesting experiment, but of the  
browsers that support before/after/content, I think only Opera  
supports it's use with images. And even then, I couldn't get the  
rendered text to always have the proper line breaking, so not all  
pages I tested actually render 100% correct when copy/pasted back  
into the Markdown dingus.

But if you look (use opera if you have it), you can see I did get  
fairly close, here's a test page:
http://twinsparc.com/_media/mdcss/index.html

The CSS that's rendering it is here:
http://twinsparc.com/_media/mdcss/md.css

So just to be clear, this isn't functional in any way shape or form.  
Please feel free to take it if anyone wants to - but don't expect it  
to function without additional work.

-Nate Steiner