Is this rendering Markdown to HTML on the fly in my web browser?
Just render the markdown to HTML once on the server and upload it for the love of God.
That being said, the article is entirely correct.
Just render the markdown to HTML once on the server and upload it for the love of God.
That being said, the article is entirely correct.
Is the overengineering so ingrained in the average HN user that they cannot see why someone might not bother with that?
However, in a case like this, the alternative—as we can already see—is to add complexity for every single reader on the front-end. So there's not really a perfect solution here—either the author or the reader has to deal with some complexity.