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by evolve2k 166 days ago
I’m pondering on this functionality for static site builders that already say have some sort of Markdown to HTML Page pipeline.

For most SSG (Static site generators) I’ve seen that take a plain text to html conversion, they usually only serve up .html

Wondering out loud if this would be a useful and desirable addition for SSG tools to have the option to serve up say .html and a .md (or .txt or whatever).

Am I missing something? Be a good idea/feature yeah?

1 comments

I do it and it works.

The only thing you might be missing: I don't think it helps many people really.

I personally still like the feature because I put my website under a free software license and then it is only fitting that you could view the actual source code. Having the `.md` next to the `.xhtml` available helps to achieve this.