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planish@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Why don’t browsers know how to render a Markdown content-type yet, all by themselves? It’s ubiquitous now and it’s not like it’s hard to parse, but every site has to translate it into HTML itself for the browser.
JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are many flavours and extensions of markdown. For example rendering of a table is not part of the standard. How newlines are handled also differ.
to have all browsers support this, this need to be made into a web standard. And all agreed by different browser vendors (like chrome, safari and firefox).
right now this might be best handled by browser extension first.
planish@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Why can’t I just write this up as a PR to Firefox and stand a snowball’s chance of getting it merged, though? Everything’s somehow simultaneously extremely stodgy and completely beholden to whatever Google decides to ship this week.
JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 3 days ago
yas! do it