Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread John Gruber
John Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2/27/07 at 11:56 PM: >I've just posted the first public version of Showdown, a full >javascript port of Markdown. Fantastic. >This is mostly a faithful, line-by-line port of Markdown.pl, but I've >made a few changes to work around missing RegExp features

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread John Fraser
On 2/28/07, Andrea Censi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a dream: when I receive a message in my web-based email reader > (gmail), something detects whether the sender used Markdown > conventions, and in that case the message gets converted to HTML. I'd been hoping somebody would use Showdown

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Andrea Censi wrote: > I have a dream: when I receive a message in my web-based email reader > (gmail), something detects whether the sender used Markdown > conventions, and in that case the message gets converted to HTML. Have the email client that sends the mail add a header:

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread Jon Noring
Andrea wrote: > John Fraser wrote: >> I've just posted the first public version of Showdown, a full >> javascript port of Markdown. It's 10KB and works in all major >> browsers. Try out the sample app: >> >> > I have a dream: when I receive a messa

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread Andrea Censi
On 2/28/07, John Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just posted the first public version of Showdown, a full > javascript port of Markdown. It's 10KB and works in all major > browsers. Try out the sample app: > > I have a dream: when I receive

Re: putting markdown into the browsers

2007-02-28 Thread Jon Noring
Bowerbird asked: > ok, how do we get markdown put into the browsers?, > so people can start serving documents in plain-text, > spared from the drudgery of converting to .html first. I would assume this is doable in the short-term using a plug-in to convert the markdown document into HTML. Such a

putting markdown into the browsers

2007-02-28 Thread Bowerbird
ok, how do we get markdown put into the browsers?, so people can start serving documents in plain-text, spared from the drudgery of converting to .html first. -bowerbird ** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:31:45 -0500, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob Rus wrote: >> If this markdown parsing can be done in real time in javascript, we >> should also be able to extend this to do real-time syntax highlighting >> on the markdown entry box, or am I wrong? Because t

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread David Aurelio
This is not possible with a normal . Maybe one could achieve the effect by using an with "contenteditable". This is what all the Javascript wysiwyg editors are using. But I think one would run in many problems trying that, for example not to move the cursor while replacing content in the iframe. T

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Jacob Rus wrote: > No no, you misunderstand. > > I want the markdown text that I'm entering to be highlighted, not the > output preview. Ah... Sorry for misunderstanding then :-) ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http:

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread Jacob Rus
Ivan Sagalaev wrote: > Jacob Rus wrote: >> If this markdown parsing can be done in real time in javascript, we >> should also be able to extend this to do real-time syntax highlighting >> on the markdown entry box, or am I wrong? Because that would be >> extremely cool! > > Indeed! I've made a

Re: [ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

2007-02-28 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Jacob Rus wrote: > If this markdown parsing can be done in real time in javascript, we > should also be able to extend this to do real-time syntax highlighting > on the markdown entry box, or am I wrong? Because that would be > extremely cool! Indeed! I've made a very quick mash-up of Showdown