I think it's about time that markdown had its own IANA media type.
Markdown is mature enough and there are plenty of implementations. I
suggest text/markdown.
Here's a list of currently registered text subtypes:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/
What are your thoughts?
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Le 2010-03-06 à 11:56, Aristotle Pagaltzis a écrit :
> If Markdown is to evolve, this is the problem that needs to be
> solved: it needs a principal designer with a good enough sense
> for its spirit and enough of a voice to gain the authority to
> have his or her mandates followed.
I'm of the sa
+++ david parsons [Mar 06 10 07:07 ]:
> In article <20100306064636.ga17...@protagoras.phil.berkeley.edu>,
> John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> >./markdown -V
> >markdown: discount 1.6.2
> >./markdown
> >`hi`
> >`hi`
> >
> >But you should get:
> >
> >hi
> >
> >--at least according to the reference impl
* Fletcher T. Penney [2010-03-06 00:00]:
> The point is that each of these variant forms of Markdown
> evolved to scratch someone's particular itch.
As indeed did Markdown himself. Once it scratched John’s own
itch well enough, he lost the compulsion to improve it. Which
I can relate to very well
* david parsons [2010-03-06 05:25]:
> In article <20100306020548.gb...@protagoras.phil.berkeley.edu>,
> John MacFarlane wrote:
> >`` a```a ``
> >
> >should render as
> >
> >a```a
>
> Now that's a defect all right. It looks like the reference
> matches any run of ticks, not just the one or two th
