- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:00:36 +0000
- To: Markdown List <public-markdown@w3.org>
On 20 November 2012 12:51, Ryan Freebern <rfreebern@unionstmedia.com> wrote: > I feel like the spec ought to address "identifying markdown content" in some > way, and filename extensions and MIME types are the two obvious ways to do > that. I think filename extensions are somewhat arbitrary, but without adding > a doctype to the markdown syntax I don't see a better way. That said, I've > only ever seen .md, .mkd, and .markdown. > > Ryan My view. media-type is only useful when served, say, via http a filename extension is useful locally for application association. A doctype is an extension to a baseline spec. So on that basis, identifying markdown is reduced to using a filename extension? Do you (and others with a view) support that? If so, as a part of the baseline, or as an extension? regards > > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote: >> >> >> Le 20 nov. 2012 à 17:01, Dave Pawson a écrit : >> > Do you think a content-type is necessary? I see md as plain text, for >> > which we have a content-type. >> >> Examples of live rendering of editing tools for mardown >> >> * http://www.iawriter.com/ >> * http://mouapp.com/ >> >> There are others. >> >> -- >> Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/ >> Developer Relations, Opera Software >> >> > -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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