I'm always having to look up the link format for reddit, and I always seem to get it backwards one-way-or-another first try. That's where markdown breaks down, at least for my uses. When you get beyond headings, lists, bold and italics, the complexity increases sharply.
Whereas HTML is reasonably consistent and simple in it's syntax, which grows from basics to complex structures.
<b>this is bold</b> is really not much different <a href="">This is a link</a> and the heirarchy of <table> <tr> <td>.
Whereas HTML is reasonably consistent and simple in it's syntax, which grows from basics to complex structures.
<b>this is bold</b> is really not much different <a href="">This is a link</a> and the heirarchy of <table> <tr> <td>.