On 11/6/17 2:25 PM, Sam Whited wrote: > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017, at 14:07, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> Why not just use Markdown (or a subset thereof)? > > There were two main reasons why I decided not to use actual Markdown: > > The first is that, as Link Mauve pointed out, this has most of the same > drawbacks as XHTML-IM (the markdown libraries pass through arbitrary > HTML). Although, in retrospect the body is escaped so this isn't as > likely as XHTML-IM to be a problem unless you unescape and them dump it > into the DOM (which is a problem regardless of what formatting spec you > use). > > The main reason though is that this is effectively what Whatsapp and > Slack do (they use more or less the same formatting), and I suspect that > between the two enough people are used to the styling to make it worth > immitating.
Thanks for the explanation! :-) Peter
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