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“Markdown” is a family of writing formats. There is no one “Markdown”. It’s completely unsuitable for direct inclusion in the web platform. Related reading: ht
by chrismorgan 10mo ago
“Markdown” is a family of writing formats. There is no one “Markdown”. It’s completely unsuitable for direct inclusion in the web platform.
Related reading: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7763.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7763.html text/markdown registration.
- Ringz 10mo agoThe overlap between these Markdown formats is actually larger than with many other formats. Possibly even larger than HTML’s overlap back when MS Explorer was the dominant browser.
- chrismorgan 10mo ago> Possibly even larger than HTML’s overlap back when MS Explorer was the dominant browser. No way. You were never left in doubt about whether a normal HTML tag would work, or whether tables were available or would become a jumbled illegible mess, or whether a line break in the source would become a space or a hard break. And that’s just the first three things that occur to me.
- yencabulator 10mo agoYou have to be willingly ignoring CommonMark, these days. I understand it doesn't have all the extensions one might hope, but to not parse the basics like the examples in the spec say is just doing everyone a disservice.