Feature Request: HTML Output

[kwcto]

Having previously used C# quite a bit, LINQPad was indispensible (http://www.linqpad.net/). Being able to "dump()" any object graph and see nested tables was great for testing APIs. I've seen some atom packages use HTML views so I know its possible.

[erran]

See lib/script-view.coffee#L193-L195. Version 2.1.7 updated HTML to be escaped with the exception of ANSI colors.

[rgbkrk]

I really would like to see HTML accepted as a first class citizen when people want it. In IPython land, defining __repr_html__ on a class makes objects magical when used in the IPython Notebook.

Not sure how to balance this between users that want raw output and those that want to put stuff on the DOM.

It's almost like wishing there were a tty setting that said "actually, I'm a canvas please paint on me".

[erran]

I was looking at tcarlsen/atom-message-panel the other day and see a raw option. Besides possible integration in the future I think providing a similar option for the user to override and set to true would be good.