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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 06, 2014, 10:49 AM »blackwater
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It isn't a specialized dialect.
It's a deep introspection on supporting exactly what Markdown was intended to do, but failed to specify with enough accuracy, leaving us to the current situation where this...# Hello there
This is a paragraph.
- one
- two
- three
- four
1. pirate
2. ninja
3. zombie
… renders out as 15 different outputs from 22 different Markdown parsers.
In fact, one of the design goals was to render "most" Markdown as close to the original intent of the authors as possible.
The people who want to extend and standardize markdown seem to be bending over backwards to acknowledge and show respect for Gruber's contribution when they could have just as easily forked and been done with it. But they very much wanted to keep "markdown" in the name and involve Mr.Gruber in the process. However, for some reason, Mr. Gruber seems to be highly offended by their overtures.-40hz (September 05, 2014, 04:05 PM)
Personally, I think it would have been nice for this standardization process to be allowed to use the name Markdown.
However, Markdown was created by Gruber and the Markdown project belongs to him. He therefore has the right to decide how the name for that project should be used. I think this 'fork' should simply use a different name. I have no doubt it will become successful (since it'll be used on StackExchange, Github, and Reddit). And it appears that this is the tack that they've taken - the fork is now called CommonMark.
I actually think that in the long run, Gruber's Markdown will largely become a note in the history of CommonMark. But that doesn't give them the right to the project name.-mwb1100 (September 05, 2014, 07:12 PM)
Edit: after a long and thoughtful email from John Gruber – which is greatly appreciated – he indicated that no form of the word "Markdown" is acceptable to him in this case. We are now using the name CommonMark.
I know this is my own pet peeve, but if you've already posted a few times to a thread like this, maybe it would be appropriate to hang back and let the time between posts get long enough to encourage some new posters.-mouser (September 04, 2014, 10:51 AM)
Not the silver bullet you're looking for, but what has worked for me the last year or so is Draft for collaborative document editing and Asana for... well, everything else.-allen (September 02, 2014, 04:59 PM)
In short, you can't fight Cthulhu. Cthulhu is the failure state. If Cthulhu appears, the game is over.-40hz (July 22, 2014, 09:28 AM)
The SJWs need to STFU.-Renegade (September 02, 2014, 11:43 AM)
Um...a point of order if I may be so bold?
Regardless of one's opinion on any given toppic, I think saying "STFU" to anyone about anything is completely out of place at DoCo.
Sorry to sound like a "SJW" or Boy Scout. But to my mind, a STFU comment runs counter to everything this community is supposed to be about.
Or so it seems to me.-40hz (September 02, 2014, 01:20 PM)
(I find the complete absence of any provision for readers to comment back both telling and oddly familiar. Dialogue was never the extreme Left's strong point. They always preferred the soapbox or lecture rather than a discussion or debate conducted in good-faith.)-40hz (August 30, 2014, 02:29 PM)
The discussions are on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook...osts/931983790161656-app103 (August 30, 2014, 07:05 PM)
Better than nothing I suppose. But IMHO a FB membership is a pretty high price to pay just to comment on something.
-40hz (August 30, 2014, 11:01 PM)
Dominion: great concept, good production values...but the main actors don't bring 'it' for me.-Shades (August 28, 2014, 09:50 PM)
