On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:19:01 +0200 Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 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). > > The others are also very popular. > > Github has a cute logo but I would not turn to it when looking for > sound technical solutions. Stackoverflow and all the sites under its umbrella, and all the sites using this engine, use (modified) markdown syntax [1], [2]. I, for one, while not being a special fan of markdown syntax (to me, the best sytnax I ever had to deal with was that used by wiki.tcl.tk), still think that the proliferation of wiki markups place everyone in position where one just can pick a syntax to use almost at random. Markdown is a) popular; b) has a (seemingly) sound C library implementation. Hence to me it looks like a perfect choice for a project like Fossil. [...] 1. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/markdown-one-year-later/ 2. http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help/ _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
