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Markdown in forum/comments?
Hey **Team *road.cc***
It's handy to have the ability to format comments using _html_ & _bbcode_, but how about supporting [_markdown_](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) as well?
It's far easier to write than either of the two current options, and there are plenty of both frontend and backend libraries available to plug-n-play.
Cheers!
[Adi](http://twitter.com/middlering "@middlering")
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Interesting that only two comments are peripheral criticism of standards, or lack thereof, rather than suitability of markdown for posting on the forums.
I'm very familiar with the flavours of markdown, and the spat between Gruber and others over standardisation of markdown extensions.
However, almost all the HTML tags supported on road.cc are in the core specification, and not the splintered extensions. And Markdown's support of native HTML tags means that users can continue to use HTML if they want (or for tags not supported - embed, object, etc)
No malice intended middlering - just intended as a light-hearted take on the perennial "why doesn't your website support X ? X is a great scripting/markup language !"
markdown has some nice features but given all the low hanging fruit and more is already covered it's probably not high on the list of pressing development issues
That xkcd cartoon could have been written about Markdown!
http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/