Comments on: Text Filters http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/11/24/text-filters.html 20 minutes into the future... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:49:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Daniel Lyons http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/11/24/text-filters.html#comment-11803 Daniel Lyons Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:00:07 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/11/24/text-filters.html#comment-11803 <p>I was a doubter of Textile at first myself, but using it quickly convinced me. On the other hand, I have often wished for conversion to and from Textile, which is a feature that simply cannot exist for Textile, but does exist for Markdown. So maybe if you use Markdown from the beginning you'll like it better.</p> <p>I was a huge believer in CSS at first; it took many years for me to realize that it's a fundamentally stupid technology. I like that it seems to work in practice, but I think the difficulty in doing rather fundamental design things, like round corners, speaks to its lack of general applicability. It's basically a font tag with positioning. But unfortunately, it's the best we have. I just refuse to tow the party line. :)</p> I was a doubter of Textile at first myself, but using it quickly convinced me. On the other hand, I have often wished for conversion to and from Textile, which is a feature that simply cannot exist for Textile, but does exist for Markdown. So maybe if you use Markdown from the beginning you’ll like it better.

I was a huge believer in CSS at first; it took many years for me to realize that it’s a fundamentally stupid technology. I like that it seems to work in practice, but I think the difficulty in doing rather fundamental design things, like round corners, speaks to its lack of general applicability. It’s basically a font tag with positioning. But unfortunately, it’s the best we have. I just refuse to tow the party line. :)

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