Le lundi 6 novembre 2017, 20:31:32 CET Sam Whited a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017, at 13:17, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote: > > Markdown(-like) is NOT a plain text format, having the receiving client > > choose between rendering all formatting characters or stripping them is > > stupid, and requiring humans to mentally strip them out in older > > clients is stupid; have you not seen the mess that OTR is for example? > > It seems to work just fine for everyone else (Whatsapp, Slack, etc.).
Whatsapp and Slack are particularly bad examples: centralised apps with a single implementation, they is not need for clean standard in this use case. > I do not see how this is comparable to OTR or why it would cause any of > the same problems since the format is perfectly readable and ordinary > human beings use Whatsapp and appear to be happy with it. I don't think that "Wow, I can write in `monospace`, even a literal ``backtick (`)``!" is easily readable. And you have no indication of markup, so if I copy/paste some code for instance, some client will render it with markup, some other will correctly render it without markup. If I escape the code, the markup aware client will render it correctly, but it will be wrong for all other clients. ++ Goffi _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
