This really is the perfect time for something like MDX to shine.

One layer above html is having Claude produce .jsx or .tsx files.

Because it can have little components with jsx (html like) bits, it’s fairly human readable and editable.

Components give it semantic compression and the high level scan makes it easier to understand and change.

~html has more capabilities than markdown~ the real title

Weren’t llms specifically originally set to output and print markdown format since it is simpler and easier everyone to read? No different rendering/libraries/apis to worry about…

Let’s be fair, about half of these things are provided by markdown as well:

> Tabular data using tables yes > Illustrations with SVG yes > Code snippets with script tags yes > Workflows using SVG and HTML svgs yes > Images using image tags yes > Design data with CSS no > Interactions using HTML elements with javascript + CSS no > Spatial data using absolute positions and canvases no, although svgs help

That said, I can kinda get behind this ‘html, not markdown’ idea - as much as I like keeping things lean and mean, and markdown is ‘just enough’ semantics and style on top of plaintext… it can admittedly be more useful to recieve a more flavorful writeup from an LLM, if it’s going to be a piece that really requires you to engage with it, rather than just a quick read. Certainly a better fit for reports.

I am working on https://github.com/livetemplate/tinkerdown to leverage the the two effective outputs of LLMs : html and markdown . Still WIP

I use obsidian MD editor to save important chats I made on Claude or Gemini.

It's the best markdown editor.

So when I need to check any past reference I just open my folder or files.

Html it's so ugly.

I wish IA products add a save al chat button, to avoid copy and paste every response.

Another great use case is piping database output (e.g. psql) directly to HTML. HTML tables can be opened in a browser or directly in Excel. So all you need for a complete BI tool is a database and the command line.

I guess the author has never heard of Markdown editors with a preview feature, and doesn't know that the Claude Code VS Code plugin opens plans in preview mode.

Do we have local first html renderers that don’t complain about cors and wrong file addresses? I don’t want to spin up a server just to open an HTML file

The unreasonable effectiveness of HtmlX.