Create Entries beta : help button for HTML and Markdown

[ninetydegrees]

Title:
Create Entries beta : help button for HTML and Markdown

Area:
entries

Summary:
I suggest adding a help button (i) or link to help us with editing. If you have forgotten which HTML tags are allowed or how to write something in Markdown, you're currently out of luck on the beta page. There is not 'help with editing' link anywhere. I think it would be nice to have one (or two; one for HTML and one for Markdown).

Description:
A help panel we could switch to and from from without leaving the page would be awesome but links to the following in new tabs/windows would be great too:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=82 (What Dreamwidth-specific markup/HTML tags can I use?)

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=260 (How can I use Markdown to format my entries?)

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax (Markdown formatting and syntax)

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=103 (What HTML can I use in my entry?)

Poll #18017 Create Entries beta : help button for HTML and Markdown

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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Should be implemented as-is.
36 (81.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (18.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[alyndra]

I'm head-desking right now because I just submitted another suggestion for exactly this! I don't think there's a way to do a take-back on it, but yeah: this would be particularly helpful now for the incoming tumblr people!

[lovingboth]

Especially as versions of Markdown vary significantly in what they will accept/process and the way that the DW-specific HTML tags aren't necessarily consistent in their syntax, a quick reminder of what will work here would save me editing posts until it does work.