Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months agoI usually always use : ) type of faces to give tone, but I used to use text like you did there for shrug, but I assumed it would alter the text due to underlying text editor like this
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It does unless you proceed it with a backslash like \*.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I assumed it was just html underneath it all. Test: <i>italics</I> <Strong>bold</strong>
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It is eventually encoded into the DOM possibly via HTML or possibly through direct node creation but it’s more accurate to say it’s markdown.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Markdown, never heard the term, the m in html is markup I thought, it’s been years since I did any web design. 2006 I think is when I studied it, so I used notepad, and Dreamweaver was still owned by macro media haha