Markdown Lite

[Matt Mullenweg]

John Gruber wrote:
> How do you think it differs from the philosophy those tools?
> 
> The other big idea I'm thinking about is a mode -- or an off-shoot
> of Markdown, where existing 'raw' HTML tags are stripped out.
> Markdown seems to be getting a lot of use in comment forms, and I
> think allowing HTML tags in comment forms is a horrible idea.

That's a great idea. In something like blog comments or forum posts full 
Markdown as it stands (and is getting bigger) is overkill. I wouldn't 
worry about HTML sanitation, there are existing tools that cover that 
quite well.

What would be a good starting point for Markdown-for-comments or Lite or 
whatever would be two-way conversion out of the box, enabling and 
disabling of features, and a really user-friendly introduction.

I don't know about allowing HTML in addition to Markdown, it would 
certainly simplify some parts if the source text could be assumed tobe 
Markdown-only.

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