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Mkdown
- jrajav 12y agoAwesome idea, but it's already been done: http://gist.io/ http://gist.io/
- jack7890 12y agoWow, how did I not know that?! Well, time for mkdown to pivot and rebrand as "gist.io but without serifs." Seriously though, looks like they did a great job.
- jaytaylor 12y agoI dig your mkdown design, it's beautiful. Cheers!
- ivank 12y agoIt's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript
- hnriot 12y agowhy is that nice? Isn't that like saying, "it's nice because it works on an EGA monitor"? javascript is a much as part of "the web" as html.
- tomrod 12y agoJS is much like salt for flavoring--the less required the better. If everything worked in elinks we'd live in a perfect world.
- reeses 12y agoElinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/ch01s06.html http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...
- slashdotaccount 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
- ivank 12y ago1) I don't have enough CPU and memory to run everyone's JavaScript in hundreds of tabs 2) JavaScript is an additional vector for exploits 3) Wayback Machine can't archive and render most JavaScript-only content 4) Most search engines besides Google can't index JavaScript-only content
- hnriot 12y agothere are trivial ways around all of these, except the first one and that's just ridiculous anyway.
- adito 12y agocompared to gist.io, I like mkdown style better. Can we have custom title too? this gist[1] titled "Learning Haskell" but in mkdown[2] it just say "Gist 8739525" in it's title. [1]: https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525 https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525 [2]: http://www.mkdown.com/8739525 http://www.mkdown.com/8739525
- benatkin 12y agoWould grabbing the first header work for you? For the introductory post that would be perfect. http://www.mkdown.com/8485599 http://www.mkdown.com/8485599
- andrey-p 12y agoThis seems like a good option for most gists, but for parent's specific use case it would just say "Primary course". (This seems like more of a problem with the specific gist rather than with your idea.)
- relekang 12y ago"Learning Haskell" is filled in the description of the gist. Descriptions can be fairly lengthy and not always suitable as titles. However, I think it would be awesome to support metadata in a form like in Jekyll posts or something similar.
- joeblau 12y agoI was going to say the same thing. Something about the typography on mkdown is more visually appealing.
- meowface 12y agoI much prefer mkdown's styling, but I think the initial fade-in is unnecessary.
- timdorr 12y agoWhat about different themes? URLs would be easy still: mkdown.com/abc123?theme=light or mkdown.com/abc123/light
- jack7890 12y agoYeah, I like that, would be cool. Thanks!
- mh- 12y ago+1 for that request; specifically (even a simple variation on the current one) where the type was a fixed-width font.
- benatkin 12y agoI like the non-querystring one (the latter). Even though it might be less technically correct it's more aesthetically pleasing.
- Splendor 12y agoWhat about light.mkdown.com/abc123 ?
- krbbltr 12y agoI prefer Mkdown's look, but I think a slightly wider text area would improve on it. It seems a little too narrow compared to gist.io. Ordered lists seem to be missing by the way.
- jack7890 12y agoThe seem to be working for me: http://www.mkdown.com/a712c1ee8c3bf8375720 http://www.mkdown.com/a712c1ee8c3bf8375720 Mind giving me a link to what you're looking at?
- krbbltr 12y agoThe enumerators seem to be missing on Firefox and IE. Working correctly on Safari and Chrome. Edit: IE8, did not test with a more recent version.
- ansimionescu 12y agoI have already found a differentiator: mkdown supports private gists, which is a boon for me.
- icambron 12y agoFWIW, I like yours a lot more.
- atmosx 12y agoDoesn't matter. You don't have to be always original all the time. It's a really useful project, bookmarked.
- StavrosK 12y agoBecause you wanted to build something cool and didn't care if it existed or not: https://www.google.com/search?q=markdown+gist&oq=markdown+gist https://www.google.com/search?q=markdown+gist&oq=markdown+gi... There's nothing wrong with that, I bet you enjoyed it and now everyone has a very nice alternative.
- rhythmvs 12y ago> Wow, how did I not know that? To keep track of the fascinating and rapidly evolving Markdown ecosystem, I maintain an inventory¹ of Markdown dialects, editors, parsers, stylesheets, various tools, etc. Kudos on Mkdown.com! It’s been added to the list.² ¹ https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources ² https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/blob/master/markdown-tools.md#prettified-md-github-gists https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/blob/master/m...
- camus2 12y agogist.io seems broken, just tried it ,doesnt work with my gists. gist.io/3d0b9deab6f5969c354b
- kylemaxwell 12y agohttp://www.roughdraft.io http://www.roughdraft.io is another tool - honestly, I like seeing more of these so that we have options that do things slightly differently.
- mrchess 12y agomkdown does private. Gist.io does not support private. +1 for mkdown!
- fogleman 12y agoShould at least try to handle code... http://www.mkdown.com/9382108 http://www.mkdown.com/9382108 Also, mkdown.com fails (without www. subdomain)
- jack7890 12y agoYeah, maybe for v2. The goal of this was to elegantly share .md files (hence the name), so other file types are outside the scope of what I wanted to build. re:www, it's working on my end: http://cl.ly/image/371J2a1Z2F1s http://cl.ly/image/371J2a1Z2F1s. But I'll investigate.
- jrochkind1 12y agoI don't think parent is talking about other file types exactly, but rather that on github itself, you can have code blocks within your .md that get syntax highlighted. Which, for some people, is a pretty key feature of github markdown. On yours, as in parent's example, the code blocks don't even get put in a `<pre>`, which would be the minimal 'right thing' if you're not going to do syntax highlighting. (Of course, yes, syntax highlighting code blocks within .md is pretty much going to use the same logic as handling other file types, it's true).
- krbbltr 12y agoIt looks like he just fed it a plain python gist, no Markdown, no nothing. On the site it says the service can be used "to elegantly share gists written in Markdown", so I don't know why he would expect that to work. I guess a clear error message would be helpful, but then you would either have to rely on everyone using standard file endings, or do some pretty fancy (and unreliable) parsing to determine if it's actually Markdown.
- shurcooL 12y agoYep, and it works fine for fenced code blocks within Markdown, e.g.: http://www.mkdown.com/7346402 http://www.mkdown.com/7346402
- jxf 12y agoAlthough http://gist.io http://gist.io has this already, I think I like mkdown's CSS a little better (though there doesn't seem to be <code> styling as of yet). In any case, great work!
- benatkin 12y agoI opened it and thought that pg would approve of the narrow column [0]. Then I looked who made it and saw that it's a founder of one of the best examples of YC (not just companies that are doing well but seem philosophically aligned with YC). Edit: I was wrong, SeatGeek didn't go through YC. But the company is certainly well-liked around here, partly because of their open source: https://github.com/seatgeek/soulmate https://github.com/seatgeek/soulmate [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/gfaq.html http://www.paulgraham.com/gfaq.html (last question)
- jack7890 12y agoSeatGeek actually didn't go through YC. But thanks very much for the kind thoughts, appreciate it.
- jack7890 12y agoI should have also mentioned that this is open sourced: https://github.com/jack7890/mkdown https://github.com/jack7890/mkdown (just updated the landing page to reflect that).
- SeoxyS 12y agoLove it. One thing I miss from GitHub's native UI, functionally, is the ability to link to headings. I feel like that should be preserved. Also, a light theme alternative would be nice.
- joeblau 12y agoSeems to work pretty well: http://www.mkdown.com/8783265 http://www.mkdown.com/8783265
- peeyek 12y agowhen displaying Go lang code it's look weird ( https://db.tt/O4Jbuqzv https://db.tt/O4Jbuqzv ). not all code wrap in code tag. mkdown.com/41ec9725ebee05370e58 btw, i love that sintax highlighting. good job!
- abritishguy 12y agoCurrently only supports markdown files, if that was a markdown file with the code in a fenced code block it would work.
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- erikano 12y agoI was hoping this was a simplified Makefile format.
- import 12y agoI think this is better http://bl.ocks.org/ http://bl.ocks.org/
- zhuzhuor 12y agoShameless plug :) http://jist.in http://jist.in
- ozh 12y agoNeat! I like the tagging attempt and the URL schemes.
- jonalmeida 12y agoDoes it have to be limited to using a gist? Would it be possible to pass in any url to just raw markdown and have that parsed (i.e. like raw.github.com) Great work though - I wish I saw this last week while showing markdown to others for the first time.
- stevekemp 12y agoUnrelated to gists, but I hacked up http://markdownshare.com/ http://markdownshare.com/ a while back. It allows quick & easy sharing of markdown text, and you can host your own instance if you wish.
- turnersd 12y agoCan this or any of the other similar renderers be hosted on github as a project page?
- sntran 12y agoI did something similar a while back with https://github.com/sntran/gists.io https://github.com/sntran/gists.io, but was too ambitious to include editor. That got me nowhere. Yours look very nice and simple.
- stared 12y agoAny such thing allowing to use LaTeX math formulae and citations?
- incanus77 12y agoAnother similar idea: http://inkwell.github.io http://inkwell.github.io