How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
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How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
@reiver Do they support inlining html in markdown as designed https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html ?
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@reiver Do they support inlining html in markdown as designed https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html ?
That is a good question — but, I'm not sure.
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@z6Mki5zHriQp1MrWfAtMNN2WZC43uRZMquT68U4B6dptNcY1/actor" rel="nofollow noopener">Johannes Oschlies hubzilla and streams actually code in BBcode... there is a markdown addon which transforms md to BBcode
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How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
Mastodon Glitch Edition
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How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
@reiver Markdown or its subset is supported by almost every platform except Mastodon.
But PeerTube is the only software I know that puts markdown incontentinstead of HTML. -
How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
@reiver #WriteFreely uses Markdown by default too, but of course sends out HTML to the fediverse
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How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
@reiver@mastodon.social add in NodeBB as well. Markdown first, and probably HTML too, although it will probably be sanitized to death on the way out.
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@reiver Markdown or its subset is supported by almost every platform except Mastodon.
But PeerTube is the only software I know that puts markdown incontentinstead of HTML.Speaking of handling markdown. I created funfedi.dev Media Types a while ago (and just added it to the navigation). I lost interest when I saw that nobody properly handled the
mediaTypeattribute of a note. Not that I know what I expected.Can you explain what goes on in mitra? When
mediaTypeistext/markdown. It changes__bold__to<p>__bold__</p>, otherwise no paragraph tags. I'm pretty sure, I was once told to use__for bold and*for emphasize. So my markdown should be good.Full example ... input activity -> mitra api response
Final note: I am not sure what I would want a proper data format to do. I find the solution of W3C ActivityPub (not W3C ActivityStreams) proposes of putting HTML in
contentand addingsourcewith the original, from which the HTML was generated ok. Of course, this leaves the existence of thesummaryandnamefield superfluous. -
Speaking of handling markdown. I created funfedi.dev Media Types a while ago (and just added it to the navigation). I lost interest when I saw that nobody properly handled the
mediaTypeattribute of a note. Not that I know what I expected.Can you explain what goes on in mitra? When
mediaTypeistext/markdown. It changes__bold__to<p>__bold__</p>, otherwise no paragraph tags. I'm pretty sure, I was once told to use__for bold and*for emphasize. So my markdown should be good.Full example ... input activity -> mitra api response
Final note: I am not sure what I would want a proper data format to do. I find the solution of W3C ActivityPub (not W3C ActivityStreams) proposes of putting HTML in
contentand addingsourcewith the original, from which the HTML was generated ok. Of course, this leaves the existence of thesummaryandnamefield superfluous.>Can you explain what goes on in mitra?
When
mediaTypeistext/markdown, the entirecontentis wrapped in a<p>tag. This was done for compatibility with PeerTube. I think<p>was needed to create a space between the title (name) and thecontent, since title is prepended to content in Mitra (also a compatibility hack -- for Mastodon API clients). -
>Can you explain what goes on in mitra?
When
mediaTypeistext/markdown, the entirecontentis wrapped in a<p>tag. This was done for compatibility with PeerTube. I think<p>was needed to create a space between the title (name) and thecontent, since title is prepended to content in Mitra (also a compatibility hack -- for Mastodon API clients).I think the wrapping in
<p>is just plain good practice because otherwise rendered content could be injected somewhere resulting in invalid HTML.Not that browsers ever reject bad HTML anyway heh</p>
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