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

> I thought about that, but these variants have the same problem that using the
> 'profile' parameter does; they're not subsets of markdown, they're incompatible
> variants.

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.

				Ned

> On 9 Jul 2014, at 1:04 pm, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The issue really isn't that different from what we have with the
> > suffixes +json and +xml. Just define a basic text/markdown and a
> > +markdown suffix. Then flavors are defined as variations on the
> > suffix. e.g. "text/vnd.github+markdown",
> > "text/vnd.stackoverflow+markdown" etc.
> >
> > That said, noting the previous comment about Markdown flavors that
> > allow embedded HTML, using "application/" would seem to make more
> > sense than "text/"
> >
> > - James
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> >> Maybe a bunch of media types need to be registered then, for the "bigger" flavours?
> >>
> >> Doing so might encourage some convergence.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9 Jul 2014, at 9:12 am, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> A 'flavor' isn't (or shouldn't be) a 'profile'. Strictly speaking,
> >>> a profile of a file format or protocol is a restriction of the
> >>> original, where instances following the profile also can
> >>> be interpreted correctly by any implementation of the
> >>> full format or protocol.
> >>>
> >>> My impression is that the markdown flavors are not
> >>> Subsets and add features as well  as restrict them.
> >>>
> >>> I think that means a text/markdown media type will
> >>> Be less useful, because there is no 'superset of
> >>> all other flavors' because two flavors could use
> >>> the same constructs in conflicting ways.
> >>>
> >>> Larry
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