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The lack of a consistent standard for Markdown is a big obstacle for this. Markdown comes in various "flavors" so you end up with a quirks mode nightmare as bad
by kevingadd 6y ago
The lack of a consistent standard for Markdown is a big obstacle for this. Markdown comes in various "flavors" so you end up with a quirks mode nightmare as bad as IE6-era HTML, if not worse, and you sacrifice expressiveness as part of the bargain.
- nerdponx 6y agoHopefully the industry will continue standardizing on Commonmark. Maybe it should have its own media type? Accept: text/commonmark,text/markdown,text/plain
- donatj 6y agoPotentially unpopular opinion, but GitHub flavored marked down is almost inarguably the de facto standard, and the vast majority of markdown in existence is GitHub flavored. We should just embrace this.
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoIf we were going to really push this as a standard, this would make a lot of sense.
- nerdponx 6y agoCommonmark is pretty close to 1:1 compatible with Github Markdown as far as I know. And Commonmark literally is a standard with a spec.