Aral Balkan
Fun little aside: What if a web app was a local utility? Like a little tool that gave you live previews of markdown files as you made changes to them in your regular editor?
Here’s a 30-second demo video of just that in Kitten.
Check out how simple the code is:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/parameter-objects/examples/markdown-preview
(The ability run Kitten apps on random open ports and to launch the default browser is currently in a dev branch; will merge to main soon.)
Aral Balkan
@aproposnix Oh, indeed, and I use Typora for that too.
This is just a little live preview example to get people to think differently about building web apps with Kitten. You can do similar things with any technology; it’s how simple Kitten makes it that’s what’s unique. So very useful for learning development, etc., and empowering people to build little things for themselves (and others).
Not Kitten’s primary use case either. Hence the “fun aside” :)
aproposnix
@aral as a non-coding person with multiple learning issues (esp., dyscalculia and dyslexia) I always struggled with markdown editors that tossed up a second window purely for rendering. It simply makes my brain go bat shit crazy. It wasn't until I discovered Typora (and later markText) with live rendering in edit mode that I fell in love with markdown. I'm not sure I am your target audience, but it would be super cool if the user could edit from that preview window instead of the unrendered one
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