* Michel Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-23 04:35]: > I'm not sure those "features" should be formally part of the > spec. I believe however that if the spec is well written it > should be pretty trivial to see what must be changed to achieve > them.
Yeah, I don’t think they belong in the spec itself either. I also agree with your opposition to them; if anything, one should filter the *output* of a Markdown-to-HTML conversion so that it won’t matter whether people write literal `<em>` tags or use asterisks. In both cases the resulting HTML is benign, so why disallow those tags? OTOH disallowing literal tags in the input means you cannot write a `<blockquote>` with a `cite` attribute, since Markdown provides no syntax for that. Scrubbing the input indiscriminately therefore removes functionality for no benefit at all. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
