Re: [apps-discuss] New I-D: text/markdown Media Type - draft-seantek-text-markdown-media-type-00

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

On 10 Jul 2014, at 6:55 am, Ned Freed <[e-mail]> wrote:

>> On 7/9/2014 10:06 AM, Ned Freed wrote:
>>> And even the variants themselves aren't all that precisely defined. Which IMO
>>> makes them a mismatch for the +suffix concept, even if we did something like
>>> +markdown-variant.
> 
> 
>> The way this thread has progressed suggests to me that the spec is
>> better as a single, specific media type, with no variant option.
> 
> My understanding is that there are already multiple variants in play, so
> you'd need multiple media types right off as well as an effort to get
> them all registered.

+1. github's variant is quite popular, as is kramdown.

I think someone needs to go and do a deeper analysis of compatibility between the formats, and then make a proposal along the lines of:

- a "main" markdown media type that also allows profiles / variants that are compatible with it
- some number of derivative, incompatible-but-widely-used media types



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