Le 9-juil.-2014 à 11:49, Sean Leonard <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hi markdown-discuss Folks:
> 
> I am working on a Markdown effort in the Internet Engineering Task Force, to 
> standardize on "text/markdown" as the Internet media type for all variations 
> of Markdown content. You can read my draft here: 
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-seantek-text-markdown-media-type-00>.
> 
> The proposal is already getting traction. Is there anyone on this list that 
> is interested in participating or helping this effort? In particular we need 
> to better understand and document what versions of Markdown exist, so that 
> either Markdown as a family of informal syntaxes will start to converge, or 
> if not, that Markdown variations have an easy way to be distinguished from 
> one another. (See the "flavor" parameter discussed in the draft.)

The "flavor" parameter is a good idea in theory. I'm not sure it'll be very 
useful in general though. Nobody is going to annotate their file with the right 
flavor unless there's a tangible benefit, and I don't see what the benefit 
could be. Software that could do something useful with markdown-identified 
content will likely ignore the flavor part when parsing because no one wants to 
see "incompatible flavor" errors, especially when commonly used parts of the 
syntax are compatible anyway.

Markdown is in the spot where HTML was before HTML5 with each implementation 
doing its own thing. I don't know if Markdown will get out of there anytime 
soon. I'll point out however that HTML never got anything like a "flavor" 
parameter in its MIME type, and even if it did it'd not have helped clear the 
mess in any way.

-- 
Michel Fortin
[email protected]
http://michelf.ca

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