On Aug 3, 2012, at 11:53 , Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 3 August 2012 11:23, Remigiusz Modrzejewski <l...@maxnet.org.pl> wrote: >> +1 > > Why markdown and not one of the dozens of other wiki syntaxes?
Because markdown is a very popular one, used by github, and we have on board the creator of a major implementation (the one used by github, iirc). > I don't find wiki syntaxes really easy. Maybe a bit easier to type > than HTML but definitely not easy to read or remember, especially > since there are dozens of slightly (and not so slightly) different > variants. That's why half of the web seems to standarize on markdown. The same web that was mostly writing HTML a few years ago. > Note there are JavaScript hacks for interpreting random wiki syntax so > you can have markdown interpreted without any direct support in > fossil. Note there are good wiki engines out there, so no need for one in Fossil too. But once we set the scope to include something, please don't keep it half-hearted... Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
