Video syntax

[Allan Odgaard]

On 16 Sep 2010, at 03:32, Waylan Limberg wrote:


> […] Just parse the urls for "youtube.com" (or "vimeo" etc) and when  

> found, convert to an appropriate object. It's easy, simple and  

> introduces no new syntax of any kind.


There is a difference between a link and an embedded object.

Presently we have `[…](…)` for links and `![…](…)` for embedded  
objects (limited to images).

I therefor not only think it would be more appropriate to use the `![…] 
(…)` syntax for embedding video/audio, but by using the `[…](…)`  
syntax with auto-detection, you make it impossible for users to link  
to the resource (rather than embed it).