Markup in assignment descriptions

[willbarkoff]

It would be amazing if markdown, or some other type of markup was permitted in assignment descriptions.

This is probably pretty easy to with some third-party Preact component (though that would require adding a dependency). One thing to be wary of is Self XSS¹.

Footnotes

1. Actually, i'm not sure if this would count as Self-XSS, because that usually refers to the console, but i guess you would be inflicting an xss scripting attack on yourself, so maybe it would count? ↩

[willbarkoff]

I added support for bold (*), italics (_), and strike-through (~), inspired by Slack's syntax. I think more can be done on a case-by-case basis