On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:19:39 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Kragen Javier Sitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-08 18:00]: > > (I also have this theory that > > I'll be a happier person if I don't spend too much time on > > inventing private markup languages, and that makes me perhaps > > unreasonably reluctant to add extra postprocessing steps, even > > when the alternative is ill-formed HTML.) > > I agree with that theory, which is why I use Markdown despite the > minor (and a few less minor) things I dislike about it. Attaching > some light postprocessing to Markdown to add support for small > missing bits seems like a much better approach to achieve both > satisfaction and an absence of unhappiness.
Agreed, especially if there's some graceful degradation. > I try to write code only when I can’t help it… I try to accumulate code I have to maintain only when I can't help it. Writing code, however, is fun, and I probably reinvent the wheel quite a bit.
