On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Ненахов Андрей <[email protected]> wrote: > However, user always knows that if he styles text using markdown, > it'll always be presented in rich text form.
This is emphatically not true. A useful reason to use Markdown is to keep it human readable. Offline backup of critical documentation is then readable with any plaintext viewer. If a Markdown document is not human readable without preprocessing, it's a low-quality Markdown document no matter how it'll be presented in a browser. Same would apply for IM messages: clients that don't understand Markdown would still present useful and human-readable content. A real reason to not use Markdown, which was discussed previously and which I agree with, is that it also allows interspersed HTML, which is exactly the reason for moving away from XHTML-IM. An implementation that would be sloppy with XHTML-IM would be sloppy with Markdown as well. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
