Markdown page
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markdown to web page renderer
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How HN took it
7 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 14 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Idea: 6 for, 10 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 against
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What people liked
Simple and easy to publish with
From 3 comments
Props for the simplicity in getting something published. That's really cool. Along similar lines, I went back to LibreOffice recently and made a few web pages with it, just to…
themodelplumber on HNI looked for something exactly like this a while ago. Thank you very much for posting this.
das_keyboard on HNThat will be usefull. Nice work.
major505 on HN
Solves the no-server markdown rendering use case
From 2 comments
Here are three use-cases: 1. You are editing documents locally on your computer. This lets you double-click to view nice markdown in a web browser with a `file://` url. 2. You…
toomim on HNAwesome, nice work! I like the simple usage of just adding a script tag to the top. I also experimented with this idea[1]. [1] - https://github.com/hachibu/md_spa
hachibu on HN
Objections
pandoc or server-side conversion already does this
From 2 comments
This is kind of neat but why not just use pandoc? pandoc -s input.md -t html -o output.html https://pandoc.org/
rubyn00bie on HNA neat party trick, but what actual use-case is there that isn't better served by server-side Markdown to HTML conversion?
majewsky on HN
Flicker on page load and blank page in some browsers
From 2 comments
The flicker when loading the page sucks. I guess displaying Markdown in case of failure is not the worst thing, but it would be nice if there was a possible way to allow getting…
jchw on HNhttp://oscarmorrison.com/md-page/ shows only a blank page on firefox. I even disabled NoScript for the site. Thanks, I'd rather have plain HTML.
eeZah7Ux on HN
Plain HTML is simpler with no JavaScript dependency
From 2 comments
Honestly, I prefer writing directly plain html5 with implicit tags. I cannot see any advantage of markdown over html for this particular usage.
enriquto on HNit is just as easy to read and write as markdown, and it does not require javascript libraries to be rendered
enriquto on HN
Requests
Use noscript or script tag to avoid load flicker
From 2 comments
The flicker when loading the page sucks. I guess displaying Markdown in case of failure is not the worst thing, but it would be nice if there was a possible way to allow getting…
jchw on HNAn option for the best of both worlds would be to wrap the markdown in a <noscript> tag.
matt-tingen on HN
Support grids and richer features
From 1 comment
This is more evidence to me that <xmp> needs to not go away, I know browsers are considering it and I really hope they don't go that route. I use <xmp> for html code commenting -…
kyledrake on HN
Questions
How does search engine SEO handle markdown-only pages
From 1 comment
I wonder what effect having a page solely in markdown has on SEO? Without markup for headers, links, etc, how will search engines prioritize content? Will they use the raw…
watchdogtimer on HN
How the hash-link setTimeout works
From 1 comment
https://github.com/oscarmorrison/md-page/blob/master/script.js Line 43 to 48, I am not entirely sure what that hashlink does. What is the setTimeout function for? Could you…
Kagerjay on HN
Alternatives named
pandoc
From 1 comment
This is kind of neat but why not just use pandoc? pandoc -s input.md -t html -o output.html https://pandoc.org/
rubyn00bie on HN
Strapdownjs
From 1 comment
There has been Strapdownjs[1] around for quite a while now. It's simple, supports some theming as well. Anyway, good luck with this. Always fun to build something from scratch.…
gprasanth on HN
mdwiki
From 1 comment
Throwing in to the list of alternatives to this: http://mdwiki.info which actually does not even require you to create a .html file, but just plain .md files and a…
littlecranky67 on HN
Markdeep
From 1 comment
[Markdeep](https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html) has waaay more features than this.
FraaJad on HN
Jr and Dr
From 1 comment
I think this has already been done by Jr [1]. And for other markup languages, e.g. Dr [2] for AsciiDoc. [1] https://github.com/Xeoncross/jr [2] https://github.com/jonathonf/Dr
jonathonf on HN