<story><title>Markdown.css – Make HTML look like plain-text markdown</title><url>http://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kiwidrew</author><text>While I can&amp;#x27;t imagine &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; anyone would want&amp;#x2F;need to do this...  it does do a great job at demonstrating the flexibility of modern CSS!  The most clever bit (to me) is the underline characters on the &amp;lt;h1&amp;gt; element.</text></comment>
<story><title>Markdown.css – Make HTML look like plain-text markdown</title><url>http://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get all the hate for this. I think it&amp;#x27;s very nifty and actually has a number of easy applications right off the top of my head. You&amp;#x27;ve basically just built an html-to-plaintext conversion utility, using your browser&amp;#x27;s HTML parser&amp;#x2F;render instead of writing your own. You&amp;#x27;ve taken a difficult-to-parse syntax and changed it to plaintext, after which it can be marked up (or down) as needed for whatever application you have in mind.&lt;p&gt;Cool.&lt;p&gt;(immediate &amp;quot;tags&amp;quot; that my brain went to upon seeing this: printer mode, accessibility modes for visually impaired, text-to-kindle, text-to-audio)</text></comment>