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4k0hz • today at 7:03 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Is HTML really that much worse to edit than MD?

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rubslopes • today at 1:55 PM

Yes, I do think it is.

HTML made by Claude will, by default, be "sleek, modern", with colorful tables, cards, maybe Tailwind for styling. And, of course it will, if you wanted a barebones HTML, you would just have asked for markdown!

So the LLM decided to present some content using 4 cards, and you now want to add new itens. You can't just add new lines of text: you need to copy the whole HTML of the cards. But the LLM used different colors for each card, so now you have the first cards with varying colors and the new cards all the same color as the last card. Now you have to think about colors... etc etc

sheept • today at 8:06 AM

Markdown is essentially just syntactic sugar for HTML[0], so yes it was made to be easier to edit than HTML.

[0]: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#html-blocks

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psychoslave • today at 7:15 AM

Let’s see…

    *No!*

    I mean, <b>yes!</b>
It depends what we mean I guess, isn’t Markdown supposed to allow [hx]ml tags anyway if user need them? Then it’s more about asking the LLM to generate Markdown with this in consideration, and privilege rendering the output of reports in the preferred browser after relevant rendering.
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