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.

title: What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose? author: Gordon Brander url: https://subconscious.substack.com/p/what-if-links-werent-meant-to-be date: 2022-02-15 source: pocket tags: media/articles

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.

title: “What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose?” author: “Gordon Brander” url: ”https://subconscious.substack.com/p/what-if-links-werent-meant-to-be” date: 2023-12-19 source: pocket tags: media/articles

What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose?

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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.