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You might disagree about where to draw the line but you can see why they drew a line in the sand. text/markdown would very quickly grow to be everything HTML is
by flir 3y ago
You might disagree about where to draw the line but you can see why they drew a line in the sand. text/markdown would very quickly grow to be everything HTML is.
There's probably a pithy "every internet protocol expands until it can serve ads" lesson in there somewhere.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoMarkdown generally does include everything HTML is (because you're allowed to write HTML in markdown)
- anon25783 3y agoI like your pithy remark! I'm calling that "Flir's Law" from now on, after your username.
- flir 3y agoI just stole it from jmz - "every program attempts to expand until it can read mail" - I think attribution might be overkill. But thanks for the thought.