A reminder of the original design goal of Markdown - my personal thoughts

[John Gruber]

A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote on 9/6/05 at 6:18 AM:


> Hence to apply the class to the LI, you’d write

> 

>     *   First item

> 

>     *   Second item.

> 

>         Second paragraph.

> 

>         {.foo}


That's not bad.


> Analogously,

> 

>     > {@cite=http://example.org/}

> 

>     > Some quoted text from elsewhere.


Why do you want this weird

    @attribute=value

syntax? Why not

    attribute="value"

which is exactly parallel to HTML?

-J.G.