Re: Markdown Content-Type

On 19 November 2012 21:51, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:
> I have no knowledge of any markdown content-type?
>
> * Should there be one?
> * What should it be if yes?
> * Is there anything expected from a user agent (mua, browser, etc) when meeting this content-type?
>
> I can see for example a story where when a user agent meets
>
> Content-Type: text/$TOBEDEFINED
>
> It renders it at simple plain text when it doesn't know how to render markdown, and interpret it when it knows. One (furture) benefit could be Mail User Agent with knowledge of markdown.

1. Can we justify requesting a content type?
2. Would rendering as plain text be so bad?

Personally I would judge this out of scope.


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Received on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 07:57:31 UTC