then post the u.r.l., so i can copy your web-page and have the editor work in a web-page i make in 3 minutes.
then, if you want, we can start up a discussion about why it doesn't have some of the handy features i have come to expect from using _other_ flavors of markdown.
a client-side javascript solution is the correct one, but showdown/pagedown/whatever is not the right choice; instead use chjj's nice script, perhaps in strapdownjs.
but basically, you've missed the important issue here: it's not how to convert text coming out of the textarea; it's how to supercharge the textarea to make it more useful and powerful during the process of composing text within it.
-bowerbird
so, just to be more specific, even though we are well past the unofficial expiration-date for interest on this thread, yes, i absolutely want something that the end-user can grok _immediately_, because that should really go without saying.
but just as much, i'm thinking of something that a person -- even an average person, with no special "tech" skills, but merely a willingness to actually edit .html source -- could quickly understand and adapt for their own purposes.
see more in the response i will write next for tophwells.
-bowerbird