Re: For future consideration: markdown support
Reply #3 – February 28, 2013, 05:48:59 am
It's something I think we should harmonise, but it's trying to get a spec made, I could bug some other forum systems and get some on board. If Elk went for it, perhaps Wedge would also be up for co-developing a free libbbcode? I imagine SM would probably go for it too, so we could have three to begin the party? Edit: Bad examples, us three pretty much use the same code anyway.
Re: For future consideration: markdown support
Reply #4 – February 28, 2013, 03:15:11 pm
Part of the problem is that we between us have the most expressive bbcode parser; vB (at least vB 3, and I see no reason for to have changed in later versions) never went beyond [tag=parameter]content[/tag] I think we'd be up for it but note that we have already added some strangeness in our implementation, e.g. the footnote tag, which would probably have to be removed (as it's not really a normal tag!)
Re: For future consideration: markdown support
Reply #5 – November 04, 2013, 05:58:11 pm
emanuele
Global Moderator
Spuds, didn't you add something hidden somewhere?
Re: For future consideration: markdown support
Reply #6 – November 04, 2013, 07:08:47 pm
Yes there is a markdown to html in the ext directory but we don't use it in posting (but could, maybe 1.1, maybe track a feature) Now the post by email does uses that as a start, so should someone reply to a message with markdown it goes markdown ->html ->bbc For outbound messages (of PBE) it does a bbc->html->markdown so that what get sent looks better than just plain text (I chose not to send html on the outbound email, we can revisit that at some point but there is more than enough going on already)