Feedback on our interactive Markdown tutorial

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

@mcwumbly

I haven’t been taught yet at that point that asterisks and dashes are also used to create bullets in an unordered list.

The point of the exercise is to make a * a *, and that’s an emphasis character which does get used pretty regularly by normals… and to teach people very early on …

if stuff gets jacked up, start escaping special characters!

I dunno, you might be overthinking this a tad. I am loathe to move all talk of escaping way deep into list lesson, when normals run into escaping problems kinda frequently in Markdown.

@mcwumbly

“We don’t want a list here. Can you fix it?”

Good point, there were a few problems there:

• the sentence wasn’t long enough to show text wrap
• the annoying skeleton.css originally used to build this tutorial overrode the list styles so no list indent was being used for numbered lists
• the left padding required for a 4 digit number is much bigger than we need elsewhere so I made the css specific to this exercise.

I guess we could use the other common problem I see, other than “ascii asterisk footnote” which is the faux signature block.. that’s also a list.

Blah blah blah blah

- Jeff

@mcwumbly

but the instructions on the page before indicate that four spaces are needed…

Yes, thanks, I will correct that.

@mcwumbly

The preview doesn’t scroll with me and grabbing the bottom corner of the text input area to make that longer doesn’t make the preview longer either. So I can’t see what’s happening as I get toward the bottom without scrolling manually

What device are you on? There are @media queries for height that set the height of the editors based on how much vertical space there is. Also I can drag the textbox just fine in Chrome?