On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 01:10:50PM +0200, Allan Odgaard wrote: > On 1 May 2010, at 11:45, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > >Is markdown a good language to use in a web forum application? How > >does it compare to bbcode in features and ease-of-use for non- > >technical users? > > One advantage of BBCode is that it has nothing to do with HTML. It > is its own language and fully defined. > > If you allow Markdown you need to consider whether or not you want > to filter out HTML tags (you probably do want to filter them out due > to security). If you do filter them out, you force users e.g. to use > Markdown links which for non-technical users might be done best > using some widget (but the same is true of BBCode). > > Also because Markdown is somewhat implicit (rather than explicit > markup) it might be possible for users to trigger unwanted > conversions, see GFM for 3 changes they made to avoid this: > http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/
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