Re: Is this project dead?

Any activity must be better than nothing?
Karl, if the existing implementers are doing nothing on
the other lists, IMHO this list could take it forward

regards


On 22 October 2013 13:07, Heikki Wilenius <heikki.wilenius@iki.fi> wrote:
> We could document the different markdown dialects in a chart, and use that
> as a basis for the test suite? Would that be useful or make sense? If
> everybody added the dialects they use regularly, it wouldn't be much of a
> task at all. I imagine that would be a useful resource in itself.
>
> What I mean is a table with columns for all the markdown dialects (from the
> list of implementations wiki page:
> http://www.w3..org/community/markdown/wiki/MarkdownImplementations), and
> rows for all features.
>
> After that we could start arguing which features belong to the canonic
> implementation. =)
>
> This is just an idea to do something concrete. Apologies if this is
> redundant from the W3C perspective and/or already done somewhere....
>
> Cheers,
> Heikki
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 21 oct. 2013 à 19:50, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit :
>> > So, basically, there is a non-Community, off-W3C activity that has been
>> > running for years and is thriving.
>>
>> Exactly. All the implementers are on the list there and they never came to
>> this list, because they just didn't need. :) They seem to have agreement in
>> between them. I think it could be fun to create a spec documenting exactly
>> what is happening in implementations, and even more useful a test suite to
>> help people create new implementations. :)
>>
>> But it is not necessary here on the W3C list, that the activity will be
>> fruitful… if the implementers are not here. :) Which is normal.
>>
>> --
>> Karl Dubost
>> http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
>>
>



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