Markdown Media Type Registration

[Lou Quillio]

A MIME-type for *unparsed* Markdown text?  But I thought Markdown text
exists to be parsed into XHTML.

Guess it can't hurt to register the media type (prevents somebody else
from doing so nefariously), but am I the only one who thinks this is a
little weird?

"You have attempted to open a file of the type 'Lou Quillio's arcane
note-taking format.'  Please register an application to use with this
file type."  Where does it end?

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#media-types

Probably I'm stupid -- and certainly Robert Sayre is generous in his
notification -- but doesn't Markdown presume it'll be parsed into XHTML,
thus already have a media type?  Wouldn't it be better to *discourage*
flamboyant, wildcat Markdown media-types -- that is, let them break --
rather than ratify them?

Or maybe I don't get it.

LQ


On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 19:08 -0500, Robert Sayre wrote:
> Over on the Atom lists, we're tackling syntaxes that people use to write 
> their weblogs. It would be really handy if you guys registered a media 
> type for Markdown. You can do it under VND or PRS, so no lengthy and 
> painful standards process would be required. I've noticed that people 
> often modify their mime.types and such for markdown already. How about 
> "text/vnd.markdown"?
> 
> http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert Sayre
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