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by austin-cheney 124 days ago
If markdown allowed class and id identifiers on each content description it would be sufficient to replace HTML.
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Agreed. IDs feel like the right starting point — names before verbs.

From there, I could imagine thin protocol layers emerging above — renderers, voice interfaces, AI agents each binding their own behavior to the same IDs. Markdown stays plain text. Complexity through composition, not bloat.