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by fastball 2818 days ago
It's easier to read? It's easier to write?
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it is just as easy to read and write as markdown, and it does not require javascript libraries to be rendered
Is there a WYSIWYG simple editor for creating documents in HTML5? Something that's basically wordpad and produces pages that actually look the same on different browsers? Documentation for my projects is currently in raw ASCII because I couldn't find a satisfactory solution.
If you edit html inside a modern editor it colorizes the output in a useful way. You see the headings, and the basic formatting in a rather clear way. For simple html (as the one you would expect from markdown conversion) this is more than enough.
WYSIWYG editors are evil as they mostly produce crap code, good news are you don't need a WYSIWYG editor with markdown as it's very easy for [almost] everybody to write by hand.
I dunno, I like the WYSIWYG editors built around Draft.js[0]

0: https://draftjs.org/