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justcla / HotTips

Visual Studio extension that provides Tip of the Day
MIT License
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Consider rendering tips as XAML instead of HTML #20

Closed AmadeusW closed 6 years ago

AmadeusW commented 6 years ago

We just discussed that the HTML renderer may be an overkill from the memory point of view. As an optimization further into development process, let's consider a library such as Markdown.XAML

justcla commented 6 years ago

I'd be keen to try it now. Does it render regular HTML and MD? Is it any faster than the web control? Or is it just MD built on top of the existing web control?

AmadeusW commented 6 years ago

It builds bare WPF controls to render the MD. However, it does not render HTML embedded within MD. It is faster because it does not load a web control and does not parse+render a website. What I'd be curious about is whether it would render images and gifs

justcla commented 6 years ago

Yes, it does render images. I like it a lot. I want to move to it. I played with it last night but failed to get it working in the project.

It takes simple MD (only), but I believe that is all we should need. We have simple mark-up. At most, we just need Bold and Links, and images.

I like the way links open in a new (external) web browser. Much cleaner that navigating inside the inbuilt web control.

AmadeusW commented 6 years ago

Great, I'll take care of adopting this library

justcla commented 6 years ago

Implemented in PR #26