On 06.01.2016 14:08, Matthew Wild wrote: > On 6 January 2016 at 13:00, Peter Waher <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello Travis, Steven, Goffi, Andreas & others >> >> Thanks for your input. My responses below: >> >>> Isn't the point of markdown that it's perfectly readable as plain text, >>> ie that there is no markup? I'd think sending straight markdown would >>> be just fine. >> >> The point of markdown is that it's easy to write and edit (focus is not >> reading, even though it's somewhat readable as well). I thought about >> sending markdown just as-is as well, but after thinking about it for a while >> decided against it. > > Sorry, this is definitely incorrect.
I was about to write the same thing. :) > > If you ask me, the best thing to do here would be to define a way to > declare a message's body explicitly as being in Markdown syntax. Then > clients will ignore that tag it and display it as text, unless they > understand the tag, then they'll know they can run it through a > Markdown processor and display a formatted version. I wonder if this is even necessary. Maybe markdown libraries are able tell if a given String is in markdown or not. Worst thing that could happen are false positives, and I do think that this won't be often the case. I do not see any reason to wrap markdown in an extra element like it is done with XHTML-IM. I would simply put it into <body/>. - Florian
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