On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 01:33:49AM +1200, David Chambers wrote:
> I'm planning to update Mango <http://mango.io/wtf?> to facilitate adding
> video to Markdown documents. At the moment, of course, it's possible to
> include video by including the appropriate HTML. There are three reasons,
> though, that having syntax (official or unofficial) for video is a good
> idea:
>
> - *Simplicity.* Writing something like [youtube:gPbh6Ru7VVM] is easy.
> Including half a dozen lines of HTML is much less so.
I don't know if it's feasable until a standard way of doing video
emerges and the video-station websites start following it. A html5
<video> block is lovely, but it's not very useful until the bulk of
the web world can deal with it without complaint.
> My question is, *has anyone given thought to an appropriate syntax for video
> in Markdown?*
Sure. We've got the framework for it:
[text](object:[content-type:]url [=size] ['comment'])
And then you can do something like
[](video:x-shockwave-flash:http://www.youtube.com/v/oFHSZLIOLZs
=425x328 'this may not be terse, but at least it's not naked html')
[Honk!](audio:/~orc/klaxon.wav)
without introducing (another form of) ascii spaghetti to the language.
-david parsons
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