Re: [Tools-discuss] what revision of markdown for IETF?

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

Revision is a word that can be used to describe steps in an orderly, linear editing process.
I don’t know how that word got into the same mail as the word markdown…

Tables weren’t part of the original markdown spec.
This was quickly fixed in the then dominant PHP markdown implementation (the name of which I forget), but other tools have implemented deviant versions of that.
Most notorious is github, which requires all-pipe vertical lines for detection (no plus signs as with everyone else).
John Gruber abandoned markdown, and commonmark came a bit late.
The rest is history.

I don’t think we should try to be the guy that cleans up all the kids’ rooms in the whole neighborhood.

But here the problem is a different one:

> On 2021-06-22, at 21:00, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> 
> I know that markdown has many flavours/versions. I have no idea how to name
> them.
> 
> Comparing:
>        https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/agenda-interim-2021-cellar-06-cellar-01/
> 
> and:
>        https://codimd.ietf.org/notes-ietf-interim-2021-cellar-06-cellar
> 
> you'll see that our nice table is not rendered as such on the DT.

Because the thing isn’t rendering markdown at all!

(Oh, and looking at the uploaded media type is a procedure that may seem justifiable from the letter of the standards but given the reality of browser implementations really is just torturing the user base.  In this century, we have file name endings (“extensions”) for that.)

Grüße, Carsten