The charm of markdown is there are different flavours, you pick your favourite, and it can evolve independently of the web itself. Making browsers render markdo

The charm of markdown is there are different flavours, you pick your favourite, and it can evolve independently of the web itself. Making browsers render markdown means markdown needs a single standard, or a standard of specifying standards and some kind of document type declaration, agreement by WHATWG and so on! For what? There are a lot of web publishing platforms for non technical authors. Free and paid. There are also simple programs to turn markdown into HTML. Uploading, hosting, DNS are much bigger barriers than HTML syntax anyway.