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top 5 unsolved problems in computer science (lemmy.today)
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[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago
  1. Yes I hate this so much.
  2. Use a better window manager.
  3. Use a better web stack.
  4. Don't most browsers support this?
  5. https://wormhole.app/
[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love it so much when ~~reddit~~ lemmy clients think they are smarter and they renumber points 5 to 1 as 5 to 9..

edit: oops, still sometimes writing reddit instead of lemmy after almost 2 years..

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's not the client, it's markup.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

this is not a defined thing in markdown, just the markdown renderers of some clients do it

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This here is apparently the original source of the markdown specification, and there it clearly says that this is the correct behaviour: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list

Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:

  1. Bird
  2. McHale
  3. Parish

It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The > HTML Markdown produces from the above list is:

If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this:

  1. Bird
  2. McHale
  3. Parish

or even:

  1. Bird
  2. McHale
  3. Parish

you’d get the exact same HTML output

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

hmm, you are right. it's not actually a bug in the renderer then

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The only difference to the standard that I see is that the standard says it should be 1,2,3,4,5, while at least for me it renders as 5,6,7,8,9.

But that's probably because it doesn't render as HTML and thus doesn't rely on HTML to do the numbering.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Don't most browsers support this?

but not all web servers. often it's disabled

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Oof, that's unfortunate. I can't say I've run into this problem though.

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