[ANN] Showdown -- A javascript port of Markdown

[Ivan Sagalaev]

Jacob Rus wrote:

> If this markdown parsing can be done in real time in javascript, we 

> should also be able to extend this to do real-time syntax highlighting 

> on the markdown entry box, or am I wrong?  Because that would be 

> extremely cool!


Indeed! I've made a very quick mash-up of Showdown with my highlight.js 
and here's the result: http://softwaremaniacs.org/showdown-highlight/ 
(down to the end of a text fragment).