I think to your average person markdown looks like a step down from WYSiWYG, especially when there's a massively successful, user friendly alternative called Wordpress.
I think that's a battle already lost.
I think that's a battle already lost.
I agree. When I worked for a company that mostly sold custom websites to smallish companies, our sales guy would show his marks the TinyMCE interface and they loved it. I reckon we sold a lot of websites to people who believed we were giving them the ability to manage their own content easily.
Even better, we were able to generate more revenue when those people invariably messed up their content and needed us to fix it. So really it's win-win.
I hate those editors with a passion, and though I like tools like Markdown (and Git), they are still problematic for people to use.
In many ways I don't see why the editor can't be right there as a first class citizen in the browser like it used to be. Linking and embedding needs to be simple.
Average users don't really want to get to grips with html or some other markup language. But it would be great if at least they could grok linking.