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Autor wątku: Hans Lenting
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May 27

Hi team,

Can we have Markdown tables?

And while we’re at it: a feature to insert links via a button.

Thanks in advance!

[Edited at 2024-05-27 16:10 GMT]
 
Thomas T. Frost
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Link May 27

Here is a link to your profile.

What is your definition of a markup table? Do you mean the ability to use the html <table> tag?
 
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Corrected May 27

Sorry, not up but down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown


[Edited at 2024-05-27 18:11 GMT]
 
Thomas T. Frost
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Thanks May 27

Thanks for giving us the lowdown on markdown.

This notation doesn't look any simpler to me than the basic html tags allowed, but of course 'easy' always means what you already know.

But at a time when many site functions are already broken and emails and notifications regularly go AWOL, I'm not sure it's a good idea to add more features.

To insert a link and make it look nice:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown">Markdown</... See more
Thanks for giving us the lowdown on markdown.

This notation doesn't look any simpler to me than the basic html tags allowed, but of course 'easy' always means what you already know.

But at a time when many site functions are already broken and emails and notifications regularly go AWOL, I'm not sure it's a good idea to add more features.

To insert a link and make it look nice:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown">Markdown</a>

More advanced: make it open in a new tab:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown" target="_blank">Markdown</a>

[Edited at 2024-05-27 16:44 GMT] ▲ Collapse


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Hans Lenting
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Request May 27

Markdown notation:

| Feature | Pastey | CotranslatorAI |
| ----------- | ----------- | ----------- |
| One | Two | Three |
| Four | Five | Six |

Rendered table:

Screen Shot 2024-05-27 at 20.33.58

[Edited at 2024-05-27 18:35 GMT]
 
Thomas T. Frost
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HTML table May 27

Right, if you meant 'HTML table', then unfortunately the allowed tags don't allow it. A possible explanation is that they use HTML tables for the forum page layout, so a badly tagged post could potentially mess up the whole page if they don't have a table tag checker (which shouldn't be too difficult to implement, I guess).

The only thing you can do for now is to post it as an image, which is not ideal.

You could do some fancy stuff with Blockquote and CSS to simulate a... See more
Right, if you meant 'HTML table', then unfortunately the allowed tags don't allow it. A possible explanation is that they use HTML tables for the forum page layout, so a badly tagged post could potentially mess up the whole page if they don't have a table tag checker (which shouldn't be too difficult to implement, I guess).

The only thing you can do for now is to post it as an image, which is not ideal.

You could do some fancy stuff with Blockquote and CSS to simulate a table, but it would only be useful for a handful of CSS nerds, and the layout might be distorted on a smaller screen.

This is probably not high priority for Proz right in the middle of their coding migration with bugs all over the place. ▲ Collapse
 
Hans Lenting
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I'm all for Markdown May 28

Thomas T. Frost wrote:

Right, if you meant 'HTML table', then unfortunately the allowed tags don't allow it. A possible explanation is that they use HTML tables for the forum page layout, so a badly tagged post could potentially mess up the whole page if they don't have a table tag checker (which shouldn't be too difficult to implement, I guess).


Markdown tables would be the solution here too.

This is probably not high priority for Proz right in the middle of their coding migration with bugs all over the place.


I still hope that they'll add Markdown compatibility to the forum editor. Using double * for bold and especially single * for lists is just so much simpler.

https://rawgit.com/fletcher/human-markdown-reference/master/index.html

Dan Lucas
 
Thomas T. Frost
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Simplest May 28

The simplest solution in the short term would be to allow the Table tag and simply check that for every <table> tag, there is a </table> tag.

In the longer term, a more modern solution would be a Word-style WYSIWYG interface.

But I don't think they have time to read this.

[Edited at 2024-05-28 11:41 GMT]
 


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