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Ringzlast Saturday at 8:37 AM1 replyview on HN

The overlap between these Markdown formats is actually larger than with many other formats. Possibly even larger than HTML’s overlap back when MS Explorer was the dominant browser.


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chrismorganlast Saturday at 1:52 PM

> Possibly even larger than HTML’s overlap back when MS Explorer was the dominant browser.

No way. You were never left in doubt about whether a normal HTML tag would work, or whether tables were available or would become a jumbled illegible mess, or whether a line break in the source would become a space or a hard break. And that’s just the first three things that occur to me.