HTML AlternativesMarkup Languages and other similar apps like HTML

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   Quarkdown

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   A modern Markdown system featuring advanced scripting, syntax extensions, and live preview, enabling seamless creation of complex books, articles, and interactive presentations, with flexible output to PDF, HTML, support for variables and community libraries.

   14 Quarkdown alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Markup Language

   Origin

   • Italy
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Self-Hosted
   • Kotlin
   • Markdown

   • Italy
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Markdown

    176 likes

   Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

   16 Markdown alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Markup Language

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

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   Discontinued

   Last update was in Dec 2004. The original app is no longer developed but the Markdown language continues in use and support through many other projects.

   Markdown vs HTML Comments

   Negative comment by Buster_Blue · Sep 28, 2017

   The ultimate result of using markdown is the conversion of it into valid HTML. It can't replace HTML and isn't an alternative standard to it, but it makes HTML easier to write.

   Negative comment by Guest · Oct 23, 2017

   Markdown isn't used for web development

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   CommonMark

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   For short it's the Markdown syntax standard. It replaces the old original Markdown.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Markup Language

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   MEML

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   MEML is a Lisp-like markup language for web development that transpiles directly to HTML5. MEML has features like easier file imports, a developer environment tool (MLD), components that can be used on multiple pages, and more.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Markup Language

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted

   

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   WHATWG

    1 like

   Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, Maintaining and evolving HTML since 2004.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Self-Hosted
   • HTML

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   ReAdABLE Human Format

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   The ReAdABLE Human Format aims at Agile Documentation by making WRITING and READING document easier for End User and Developer alike, while allowing a high degree of flexibility.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Markup Language

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   R

   

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