[media-types] Re: +md as a text/markdown suffix
Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]>
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Hello list, I think that what made the success of the many markdown flavours is their ability to “degrade gracefully” in the eyes of end-users by showing a text that seems human-readable. The YAML additions aimed at the same. Maybe that can be enough for a description of the encoding? At the end it seems much like plain-text but with a little chance of some automatic processing, which is probably expected to never fail when in a display process, even if the user needs more cognitive resources to interpret it. Paul On 21 Aug 2026, at 2:37, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Registering markdown as a suffix seems to invert that -- it says "here's a family of formats that share semantics, but they're spelled differently on the wire." That's assuming that you want to accommodate all of the various flavours and complications of modern markdown, and not choose a winner. On 21 Aug 2026, at 0:04, Orie wrote: > Aren't there lots of flavors of markdown? _______________________________________________ media-types mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]