Loomio
Wed 14 Nov 2012 5:24AM

Making markdown opt-in rather than default

BK Benjamin Knight Public Seen by 48

I've seen some cases where markdown has badly messed up the formatting of the discussion context panel, particularly when people cut and paste text in from other places.

I think markdown is awesomely useful when people know how to use it, but that's a small minority of our users. Would be super keen to switch it to opt-in. I'm suggesting this as a short-term quick fix - ideally it would be awesome to have a basic formatting GUI like Gmail, so ability to format text isn't limited to the tech-literate.

Thoughts?

JD

Josef Davies-Coates Tue 9 Jul 2013 7:54AM

having some formatting buttons makes sense to me @robertguthrie

I'm assuming dnd image/file support means drag and drop image/file? Personally I tend to have app windows maximised and taking up the whole screen and so have never really made use of that where it exists (don't find it speeds up my work at all), but I guess others like it.

I don't like the second editor in the example you link to - don't like what it does to links and can't work out how the 'also' in the last sentence is italic!? :)