Posted by Curtis on 12/04/05 11:44

Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com> wrote in message
news:leo-3EFCAE.22065703122005@news.supernews.com...
> In article <dmtiqt01g2b@news2.newsguy.com>, "Curtis"
<nospam@nohow.not>
> wrote:
>
> > This looks like a helpful NG.
> >
> > We're pretty new to CSS and PHP, but we've nevertheless
> > undertaken the design of a simplified text markup
> > language--being dedicated free-market advocates, we
> > naturally call it "Marx." We'll probably open-source it,
> > though, as a contribution to O-S CMS projects.
>
> Good luck with all that! Whether your markup is better or
not isn't the
> issue. Unless it is revolutionary, it won't make a blip on
anybody's
> radar.
>
> leo
>
> --
> <http://web0.greatbasin.net/~leo/>


Leo, you're not exactly bursting our bubble. LOL

In a few years, when client-side WYSIWYG editors actually
/work/ worth beans, perhaps even BBCode will be retired on
rock-solid software like VBulletin, going the way of DOS.
But for now, there's still a place for plain-text markup, if
it's free or cheaper.

As for revolutionary, what would revolutionary markup code
even look like? If anything, a bit of our dot-command syntax
in principle goes all the way back to 1976 and before.

I'd say the most we can hope for is something a bit more
convenient than other solutions, a better fit for some needs
for a few years. I certainly didn't mean to imply that this
was some highly marketable killer app we were generously
donating to an eager world! :-) I only added that bit to
avoid sounding like an advert, not to sound self-important.

Curtis

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