On Samstag, 14. Oktober 2017 18:35:46 CEST Dave Cridland wrote:
> FWIW, I've been using "Markdown" when I really mean *only* the following:
> 
> *bold* (or other strong emphasis)
> /italic/ (or other weak emphasis)
> `preformat` (or otherwise indicating a command, code, etc and disabling
> markup).

I still don’t know how to put emphasis on the word "Trainer*Innen"...


> I defintely could not live with paragraphs, headings, embedded images, and
> so on. Those are fine in documents but keep them as far away from IM as
> possible.

I think you’re excluding some interesting use-cases here. At $dayjob, we have 
an XMPP bot which sends monitoring notifications. To structure that 
information, all of these things are useful: headings (of course not huge 
ones, but something akin to what <h5/> and <h6/> usually render like), 
enumerations and/or unordered lists and paragraphs (due to the current 
restrictions, we obviously couldn’t use those). Embedded images also make 
sense, because icons and such are much quicker to recognize than text.

In short: there are use-cases outside of day-to-day IM we should support 
without having to resort to full-blown XHTML, because as we know, XHTML is 
hard to implement in clients, and this type of content will be viewed by 
people with normal clients.

If we’re going to have a breakage in markup support in XMPP, we should use 
that opportunity to consider new use cases beyond day-to-day IM, and include 
these. This gives us better interop, and I think we can keep the cost low 
nevertheless.


kind regards,
Jonas

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