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Which markdown is he talking about ? There are no standard and each editor has it's own rules. Bullet lists? How do you make sub bullet lists ? Use tabs ? No ta
by chmike 13y ago
Which markdown is he talking about ?
There are no standard and each editor has it's own rules.
Bullet lists? How do you make sub bullet lists ? Use tabs ? No tab on iPad. Tables ? There is a Markdown dialect for that.
Markdown has limitations and needs to be standardized.
- GuiA 13y agoThere is a reference syntax respected by all scrupulous editors [1]. It's a decentralized standard, sure, but it's compact and logical enough that it's unequivocally respected across the web. [1] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
- Marazan 13y agoGruber's Markdown syntax has a bunch of ambiguities in it.
- chmike 13y agoYes. Thank you to point it out. That is what I meant by standardization. An effort to identify and sort out these ambiguities or missing features like how to escape * *, etc. I'm a fan user of Markdown, but I'm also frequently frustrated because it could be made so much more powerful and efficient while preserving the same initial spirit.
- Marazan 13y agoNot only that but the "reference" implementation on the website has bugs in it that Gruber has fixed but for some reason he hasn't updated the file. If you know what to search for in the Markdown mailing list you can find his latest version but it is insane that it's not on the page.
- jeena 13y agoThere was a attempt to do that www.w3.org/community/markdown/ But Gruber was childish about it: https://twitter.com/gruber/status/261650083689426945 https://twitter.com/gruber/status/261650083689426945 https://twitter.com/gruber/status/262287246953164800 https://twitter.com/gruber/status/262287246953164800