i'm writing this post in markdown. but i'm kind of tired of markdown because i keep reading about semantic HTML and seeing how fucking awesome it is and then feeling limited by markdown's constraints.
like, there's so much cool stuff in HTML that you just can't mimic with markdown! sure yeah you can capture keyboard strokes with code-representative backticks, but HTML has kbd and you can make that look so cute and fun with CSS like tiny little keys on screen!!!! there's also cite, which can go under a quote or something and it'll be italicized already AND make sense semantically!!!! how cool is that?!?!
i can't forget the super powerful duo of details and summary, which i hope you know and love as much as i do. i also like dfn as an alternative to abbr (which apparently has been abused to death for SEO spam reasons, and already wasn't widely supported, so it's mostly ignored by screen readers). and lastly, there's the iconic descriptive list elements: dl, dt, and dd. can you fucking believe markdown still doesn't have a standardized equivalent to that?! fucking bonkers man
i mean sure, the usefulness of semantics may be kind of boring to most people, beyond the baseline requirement of it for accessibility reasons (if your site is div soup i am stealing something out of your house). but i don't know, i just find the list of all these HTML elements so neat.
more often than not, lately, i find myself wanting to write my posts in raw HTML rather than in markdown. maybe i'll start doing that. who's gonna stop me?!