Presentation at the UX Camp Vienna 2014.

1. Markdown
vs.
WYSIWYG
Stop treating the web like a word document

2. How it all began…
How it all began… The differenceWYSIMOLWYG …less is more
>…playing God

3. …playing God
How it all began… The differenceWYSIMOLWYG …less is more
>…playing God

4. WYSIMOLWYG*
!
!
!
You still have to know what you do!
Image position and break performance are often bad!
Editors concern about design
The enemy: Blank line!!!
*What you see is more or less what you get
How it all began… The differenceWYSIMOLWYG …less is more
>…playing God

5. The difference
WYSIWYG
for creating printable documents or presentation slides
!
Markdown
simple plain text formatting syntax for writing for the web!
How it all began… The differenceWYSIMOLWYG …less is more
>…playing God

6. … less is more!
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7. The truth on
WYSIWIG editors
!
provide no good markup at all
provide individual markup functionality to non web-affine users
lack of effectivity, simplicity & consistency
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8. Markdown myths
lack of UX
is not intuitive
restrictions on simple formatting
is something for developers (technical)
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9. Accessibility
not all Wysiwyg-editors pass WAI-ARIA criteria
Markdown need no UI components
better HTML, better accessibility
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10. We all UX
Availability on every single device
constant website layout
editors don’t care about the layout
semantic correct content
… also if more than one person
works on it
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11. … check out
semantik.zensations.at
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Wanna learn more?
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12. thank you
…and if you have any questions, you know what to do!