good answer...
but i'm looking for something an average person could understand and add to an average webpage, with an investment running 3 minutes or less...
-bowerbird
but i'm looking for something an average person could understand and add to an average webpage, with an investment running 3 minutes or less...
-bowerbird
i mean... seriously. are you actually saying that?
-bowerbird
Could you understand those setups in 3 minutes? No. But installing them is just a matter of copy-pasting a few lines of code from the creator's website. You can do that easily enough.
as i said above, in another reply just now, i'm aiming at a "sweet-spot" that _might_ be as nonexistent as you say, i.e., an "average" user who'll edit a few lines of .html.
ideally, s/he should have a good understanding of all the implications and ramifications of those edited lines, too.
all of which should take no more than 3 minutes, total, because that's all the average person will devote to it.
meaning it will boil down to calling a javascript file, plus jquery (or some other package), and _nothing_more._
if it's that simple, this kind of "supercharging" will be used by enough people that it could attain critical mass.
otherwise, not.
and i'm quite sure that, if you actually do the exercise, you'll find that none of the solutions mentioned can be installed in such a straightforward and trouble-free way.
surely not in 3 minutes.
nor with any comprehension of all possible ramifications.
it might be that they haven't been packaged up that way; or it might be that they are complex enough that it won't be _possible_ to "package them up" to be that simple; but -- either way -- they are not now the answer i'm seeking.
i hope this clears up my position. thanks for the dialog.
-bowerbird
And there's an opening in the market for an easy-to-use easy-to-install JavaScript text editor. Perhaps we should make one.
then post the u.r.l., so i can copy your web-page and have the editor work in a web-page i make in 3 minutes.
then, if you want, we can start up a discussion about why it doesn't have some of the handy features i have come to expect from using _other_ flavors of markdown.
a client-side javascript solution is the correct one, but showdown/pagedown/whatever is not the right choice; instead use chjj's nice script, perhaps in strapdownjs.
but basically, you've missed the important issue here: it's not how to convert text coming out of the textarea; it's how to supercharge the textarea to make it more useful and powerful during the process of composing text within it.
-bowerbird
so, just to be more specific, even though we are well past the unofficial expiration-date for interest on this thread, yes, i absolutely want something that the end-user can grok _immediately_, because that should really go without saying.
but just as much, i'm thinking of something that a person -- even an average person, with no special "tech" skills, but merely a willingness to actually edit .html source -- could quickly understand and adapt for their own purposes.
see more in the response i will write next for tophwells.
-bowerbird