On: Show HN: Sundown – an alternative to Markdown

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I would be much more interested in your friend's view of an ideal text format.

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I don't think his point was that Markdown even sucks. I think, rather, it's that a lot of people don't know HTML and find rich text much more intuitive, despite its weaknesses. It's sort of the 90/10 rule; Word is good for 90 percent of people, but the other 10 percent are driven nuts by it.