On Nov 18, 2011, at 07:35 PM, Martin Pool wrote: > * There's a lot of existing text in Launchpad that was entered with >no concept of it being rendered as markup, which may look weird if we >change it that way. I propose to handle it by, in the first instance, >seeing how much of it does actually look bad. If it's a serious >problem, then we can update the database to put everything affected in >to a literal block. Or, we can perhaps do some schema change to say >"this text is pre-markup" but that seems like it's going to need lots >of one-off changes.
I think the way to handle this, and also allow room for future adoption of additional markup languages, is to include a Content-Type like value designating the style of markup being used. PEPs for example have exactly this header to designate plain text (i.e. pre-markup) or reST. This value can even be hidden for now and just hard-coded to either plain text for existing text or text/x-markdown for newly entered text. The proposal sounds really good to me, and I agree it would be a nice first step toward wikis (second step: version control those editable text blocks). -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
