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>> What does it add that markdown does not have ?

>"a satisfactory rendering can be achieved with a single pass of a document, processing each line independently" - from what I understand of Markdown parsing, it's a lot more complex than this because of the spec.

If your device don't have enough memory to parse the markdown document it can just display it. That's not an useful feature of a format. Hell, if it is really a problem use subset of it instead of using half, then inventing own, worse way, to add URLs into the text.

>> There appears to not even be a support for a basic table

>Given the number of Markdown table attempts I've seen over the years, I don't blame them for wanting to avoid that plague pit. Plus then rendering tables is another hellscape of torment.

If you don't we're back in ugly land of mono font manually setting it up, that's why I think that should be included in bare minimum of any markup format. But that's kinda beside the point as originally MD didn't had it either.