I agree @Sanne Peters Markdown is using well in Reddit , which is for non-technical users. Live Markdown preview will make it a lot easier for Non-Technical users.
I found one here , seems it will be quite easy to integrate: https://github.com/chjj/marked/ On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Sanne Peters <sa...@realtimesolutions.nl> wrote: > Hi John, > > I'd like to respond to this: *"IMHO markdown is useless for non-technical > customers"*. How do you get this impression? > > Markdown was purposely created for non-technical people to give them a > mark-up language: > > 1. that did not have all the features that HTML had (making it far less > complicated). > 2. that still as transparent as HTML in terms the way that mark-up is > translated to a web-page. > 3. did not have the unpredictable layout/styling behaviour caused by > WYSIWYG editors. > > In essence it lets the author focus on content, instead of layout & > styling (which is defined by a designer). > You need to educate people on why it is better than WYSIWYG's (like > TinyMCE), preferably by example. > > I you disagree, please let me know. > > kind regards, > > Sanne > > > > On 31/10/14 10:48, John Spackman wrote: > > 1) . We have seen that HTML Areas sucks (every HTML Area editors ) , But > markdown is replacing HTML Areas ! We need markdown Preview , in place of > HTMLAreas. > > > HtmlArea did’t work out, because unfortunately writing a cross browser > editor is a major project on it’s own (esp including IE6 support, which was a > requirement at the time) - integrations with other third party editors are > the way to go, e.g. TinyMCE and CKEditor. There are contribs for at least > CKEditor if not TinyMCE. > > IMHO markdown is useless for non-technical customers, I certainly don’t have > any that would see it as an upgrade from TinyMCE. > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing > listqooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > >
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