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It was briefly renamed Common Markdown as well, and John hated on that as well, so it became CommonMark. And now we're in an odd position where Github and frie
by mikepurvis 1y ago
It was briefly renamed Common Markdown as well, and John hated on that as well, so it became CommonMark.
And now we're in an odd position where Github and friends all validate their implementations against the CommonMark suites, but refer to the result as "Markdown" to their users, which makes the work they're doing maintaining that stuff especially thankless.
- zie 1y agoAnd then there is GFM (Github Flavoured Markdown), which is a bit different from Common Mark.
- mikepurvis 1y agoAt the time of the SM/CM/CommonMark kerfuffle a decade ago, Gruber was quite explicit that "X Flavored Markdown" was perfectly fine with him— Atwood even includes the relevant podcast snippet: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo... Honestly the whole thing is so ridiculous.