Free at last, free at last! Thank Matt Almighty (or other TPTB) I'm free at last!

Like Mario I'm a big Markdown lover. But unlike Mario I'm not a developer at all. I couldn't code anything to save my life. I just like to write words. I don't like doing it with TinyMCE and I do love doing it with Markdown.

Markdown is so clean and easy, you'd almost think that even the general public could use it. But of course Amy is right, anything more complicated that posting a Facebook status update (including, obviously, Facebook privacy settings) is a real challenge to sell to the masses. The visual editors I've seen on WP and elsewhere are too sloppy for me, so I'll gladly take a text editor if I have to and Markdown if I can.

I imagine WP will always want a visual mode. I wonder if they can be actually WYSIWYG instead of the sloppiness of today.

PS: I just wrote about Markdown last week in a piece on Editorially for Torque.