On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 13:49:29 UTC, Pavel wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 04:11:28 UTC, Kapps wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 03:31:13 UTC, Pavel Evstigneev
wrote:
May I improve forum to support markdown?
The forum is actually an interface to a newsgroup, so most
forms of markdown would not be supported in the interest of
having a consistent UI for people who use mail / newsgroup
clients vs people who use the online web interface.
Well, we can serve html in newsgroup/emails, or as plain text
with striped markdown's markup
For example user writes "hello, **people**", on online
interface its "hello, <strong>people</strong>", in plain text
format (for people who dislike html) it's: "hello, people". I
don'y think we should give markdown as plain text, or we should
limit features, for example only titles, code blocks,
horisontal line, links.
Everything is still same, but code snippets and links looks
nice on web ui.
How you think?
I suggest you put together a minimal pull request for DFeed
(https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed), maybe a patch that just
handles one or two markup tokens, then open another forum thread
here asking if there are any objections, as many people likely
won't see this thread because of the unrelated title. If that's
too much effort, at least open another thread without the pull
request.
I don't think there's anything wrong with sending markdown as
plain text to the newsgroup and email lists, as it's meant to be
readable.
