Re: What is out there?

The MediaWiki format is certainly strange compared to Markdown. I brought
over the table from Wikipedia so that we can further revise it:

http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/wiki/MarkdownImplementations

I'm not sure that we need to list/consider the various editors? The many
bindings for Sundown and Discount probably don't need their own entries
either.

Nathan.


On 19 November 2012 18:08, Nathan Youngman <nj@nathany.com> wrote:

>
> I agree that we need an idea of popularity, maintenance, etc.
>
> Companies using it
> Downloads
> Link to source repository
> Date of last update
> Age/completeness
>
> Some of this information can be found in place like the Ruby Toolbox:
> https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/markup_processors
>
> I like how the StackOverflow link takes a survey of how a particular
> feature (code fencing) is implemented. From that, we could make
> recommendations based on user expectation (familiarity with popular
> implementations and consistency with the rest of the spec).
>
> I don't think we can possibly evaluate every implementation there is, but
> we could choose a dozen or so of the "top" ones.
>
> Nathan
>
>
>
>
> On 2012-11-19, at 5:55 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For the sake of having somewhere to look,
> would users please list all the markdown implementations / syntax that
> they know of?
>
> I'll put them on a wiki page as reference.
>
> If you know or think an implementation is popular/ very popular / unused
> please add that.
>
> TIA
>
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