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RE: **ANNOUNCING CLOSED BETA INVITE** Ladder.net - Post Scheduler and Social Media Manager - Testers Wanted!
What features does your markdown editor work with?
Does it use half html half markdown like steemit?
does it have div class="pull_right" and such?
Markdown started as a simple CSS that allowed bloggers in particular to do simple tasks like using simple symbols like a # instead of surrounding text in a < h1></ h1 >. There is a screen shot in the post above showing the editor. Steemit has decided to leave out some of the style functions ( for security purposes I imagine). CSS is the proper place for alignment now (and not supported by Steemit currently). The way alignment is done in a Steem post using Markdown is by building a table. You can align text within the table. Unfortunately we can't change the standards Steem has set - we can only work with them! Tables can be a pain but check out the links below to gain some understanding of how tables can help your format your post. The <center tag is the only Html alignment tag that I know of that works.
Check out :http://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables
A Better View Of Our Platform: https://steemit.com/introducemyself/@ladder/ladder-net-steem-author-and-voter-power-tools
And: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet (look at the tables section).
I was giving an example of what is specifically in steemit and asking if it is implemented in your editor.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/new-advanced-formatting-features
And, does your editor tell you if you use a style function that is currently left out?
Interesting question. Our Markdown editor at this point is superior to Steemit. I know it is certainly not in this development cycle to implement Steem html specific buttons - though I do agree that the right and left align (and center) would be handy to have. We expect "power users" to use our apps out of the gate and if they dont know these tags or how to use tables - its not our goal to teach them. It does sound like a great feature to add in future releases - though our vision is to have a WYSIWYG editor that will allow you to compose all of your social posts. I will mention this to @contentjunkie and I will add it to the documentation for the site. Thanks for mentioning this!
Therein lies a huge problem. When I thought of an external editor/upload tool, my first thought was how to pull steemit's editor out, and then provide a path to pull it out again whenever it was seriously updated. But that makes the tool tied to steemit.
Thanks for sharing this core paradigm of your project.
For note: I think it was quite ... stupid for steemit to put in a class name into the base css, so that it will trickle down to posts. As in, it is impossible to find out such a detail if you come new to the project. And, it is so easy to break.