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top 5 unsolved problems in computer science (lemmy.today)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks 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/
[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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..

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Don't most browsers support this?

but not all web servers. often it's disabled

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

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