What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose?

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- Modeless markup
There’s another, radically simple approach to markup. Bare URLs,#hashtags, and @mentions are all identifiable within text as special forms. We could think of these approaches as “modeless markup”. There is no distinction between the edit-mode and view-mode text. The text is the same in both cases.
What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose?

Metadata
Highlights
- Modeless markup
There’s another, radically simple approach to markup. Bare URLs,#hashtags, and @mentions are all identifiable within text as special forms. We could think of these approaches as “modeless markup”. There is no distinction between the edit-mode and view-mode text. The text is the same in both cases.
What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose?

Metadata
Highlights
- Modeless markup
There’s another, radically simple approach to markup. Bare URLs,#hashtags, and @mentions are all identifiable within text as special forms. We could think of these approaches as “modeless markup”. There is no distinction between the edit-mode and view-mode text. The text is the same in both cases.