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> It seems a little questionable to me for John Gruber to have been ignored in this process. No, it's the other way around. Gruber decided to ignore everyone w
by frowaway001 12y ago
> It seems a little questionable to me for John Gruber to have been ignored in this process.
No, it's the other way around. Gruber decided to ignore everyone who tried to improve the sad state of Markdown for the last 10 years.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoYes, I was a bit wrong with that statement. Just read http://blog.codinghorror.com/responsible-open-source-code-parenting/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/responsible-open-source-code-pa...
- riking 12y agoAnd, if we look at the list of people who were writing it, we see Github, Meteor, Reddit, and StackExchange people (plus JGM and Atwood) as the participants, which I think cover the top 3 sites using Markdown. And Jeff is using Markdown for his forum project, Discourse, so that's another chunk of users. This kind of coalition has the power of numbers to standardize on something, which is why this is so exciting.