What I look for in a great online markdown editor? Since that is plaintext editor, it should behave like one.
You should give it distinctive syntax higlighting feature. Ace, for example, is great with that. You should provide easy way to indent/unindent text blocks with four spaces (tab and shift+tab). Operations with selections (linkify selected text, turn current paragraph into code section or, if i may, header).
Also, images. See latest Github take on images drag'n'drop [feature][1]. That would, of course, require server-side support.
I can write markdown in textarea. But I'd rather do that in proper editor which more or less looks and acts like one :)
You should give it distinctive syntax higlighting feature. Ace, for example, is great with that. You should provide easy way to indent/unindent text blocks with four spaces (tab and shift+tab). Operations with selections (linkify selected text, turn current paragraph into code section or, if i may, header).
Also, images. See latest Github take on images drag'n'drop [feature][1]. That would, of course, require server-side support.
I can write markdown in textarea. But I'd rather do that in proper editor which more or less looks and acts like one :)
[1]: https://github.com/blog/1347-issue-attachments "Github Issue Attachments"