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by WA 301 days ago
I can type text, mark it, click "B" for bold and it works. This is WYSIWYG minus images.
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WYSIWYG does not refer to the icons in the toolbar, but rather the text itself. This is not WYSIWYG because when I make something bold, I see a bunch of asterisks around it.

Still a cool project, but someone who does not understand markdown would wonder why pressing the heading button makes my text into a hashtag instead of making it bigger.

I see both. It's bold and has asterisks around the bolded text.
You see _ text _, but instead of 2 underscores you get formatted text. That's a definitional violation of WYSIWYG editing style