How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
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Re: How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
@reiver@mastodon.social add in NodeBB as well. Markdown first, and probably HTML too, although it will probably be sanitized to death on the way out.
@reiver #WriteFreely uses Markdown by default too, but of course sends out HTML to the fediverse
@reiver Markdown or its subset is supported by almost every platform except Mastodon.
But PeerTube is the only software I know that puts markdown in content instead of HTML.
Speaking of handling markdown. I created funfedi.dev Media Types a while ago (and just added it to the navigation). I lost interest when I saw that nobody properly handled the mediaType attribute of a note. Not that I know what I expected.
Can you explain what goes on in mitra? When mediaType is text/markdown. It changes __bold__ to <p>__bold__</p>, otherwise no paragraph tags. I'm pretty sure, I was once told to use __ for bold and * for emphasize. So my markdown should be good.
Full example ... input activity -> mitra api response
Final note: I am not sure what I would want a proper data format to do. I find the solution of W3C ActivityPub (not W3C ActivityStreams) proposes of putting HTML in content and adding source with the original, from which the HTML was generated ok. Of course, this leaves the existence of the summary and name field superfluous.
>Can you explain what goes on in mitra?
When mediaType is text/markdown, the entire content is wrapped in a <p> tag. This was done for compatibility with PeerTube. I think <p> was needed to create a space between the title (name) and the content, since title is prepended to content in Mitra (also a compatibility hack -- for Mastodon API clients).
Re: How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think the wrapping in <p> is just plain good practice because otherwise rendered content could be injected somewhere resulting in invalid HTML.
Not that browsers ever reject bad HTML anyway heh
I think we are very deep in "the system is held together with spit and prayers, because the duck tape ran out" - territory in the usage of the <p> tag here.
How the markdown is rendered would be the duck tape.
@reiver Do they support inlining html in markdown as designed https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html ?
That is a good question — but, I'm not sure.
@reiver Also PieFed I believe, as a Lemmy-inspired and somewhat compatible software
PieFed too.
@reiver #gotosocial posts are also in #markdown