Dillinger vs. JavaScript vs. Markdown vs. Perl Comparison Chart

Dillinger is a cloud-enabled HTML5 Markdown editor that can be used offline and is powered by AngularJS. Markdown is a lightweight markup languages that uses the same formatting conventions as email. Drag and drop HTML files into Dillinger to convert them to Markdown. Drag and drop Markdown or HTML files into Dillinger. You can export documents as Markdown, HTML, and PDF. The text you see is actually written in Markdown. To get an idea of Markdown's syntax, simply type some text in the left window and then watch the results in right. Drag and drop images (requires your Dropbox account be linked). Import and save files from GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive and One Drive.

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). Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. See the Syntax page for details pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax. You can try it out, right now, using the online Dingus. The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.