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chrismorganyesterday at 7:51 AM1 replyview on HN

“Markdown” is a family of writing formats. There is no one “Markdown”. It’s completely unsuitable for direct inclusion in the web platform.

Related reading: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7763.html text/markdown registration.


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Ringzyesterday at 8:37 AM

The overlap between these Markdown formats is actually larger than with many other formats. Possibly even larger than HTML’s overlap back when MS Explorer was the dominant browser.

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