diff --git a/BadThings.adoc b/BadThings.adoc index 920319c..47053dc 100644 --- a/BadThings.adoc +++ b/BadThings.adoc @@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ Bad things Web browsers ------------ -https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop.html +https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop.html + +https://macwright.com/2020/08/22/clean-starts-for-the-web.html +(but link:GoodThings.html#_asciidoc[fuck Markdown]) Scrap it all, start anew. Content goes first, presentation second. Don't allow for the inverse to happen. I'm not interested in anyone's animations and gray diff --git a/GoodThings.adoc b/GoodThings.adoc index 427a82a..00e019f 100644 --- a/GoodThings.adoc +++ b/GoodThings.adoc @@ -89,11 +89,17 @@ It's a shame that it's been frozen in time. AsciiDoc -------- -I despise Markdown for its choices, and I don't want to suffer while writing. +I utterly despise Markdown for its choices, and I don't want to suffer while +writing: + +- you have to escape all underscores in words, +- the link syntax is hard to remember, +- emphasis is screwed-up entirely, asterisks are supposed to mean '`bold`'. + Granted, I can see some faults in AsciiDoc as well, notably with how hard it is -to parse and process, but I haven't found anything better yet, and -standardisation seems to be finally -https://groups.google.com/g/asciidoc/c/EKx-Hfx-nMM[on the way]. One day I might +to parse and process, but I haven't found anything better yet, not to mention +powerful, and standardisation seems to finally be +https://groups.google.com/g/asciidoc/c/EKx-Hfx-nMM[on its way]. One day I might create a processor for a slightly modified subset of it. Until then, https://github.com/bytesparadise/libasciidoc[libasciidoc] is what I'll be using for all markup, and I'm immensely thankful to its authors for their work.