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[Johannes Wärn]

I will start of with an example of what I would like to be able to write in Markdown.

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This is a dummy paragraph, it would of course be longer than this.

This is just another dummy paragraph; however, after it comes some pictures of my cat.

http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat1.jpg

http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat2.jpg

http://www.example.com/animatedpictureofmycat.gif

That was nice. Here is an audio recording of my dog barking:

http://www.example.com/dogbark.mp3

And finally here is a video of my two pets being cuddly:

http://www.example.com/dogandcat.mp4

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I think it’s clear that the output I am suggesting for this would be something along these lines:

   <p>This is a dummy paragraph, it would of course be longer than this.</p>
   <p>This is just another dummy paragraph; however, after it comes some pictures of my cat.</p>
   <div><img src="http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat1.jpg"/></div>
   <div><img src="http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat2.jpg"/></div>
   <div><img src="http://www.example.com/animatedpictureofmycat.gif"/></div>
   <p>That was nice. Here is an audio recording of my dog barking:</p>
   <audio src="http://www.example.com/dogbark.mp3"></audio>
   <p>And finally here is a video of my two pets being cuddly:</p>
   <video src="http://www.example.com/dogandcat.mp4"></video>

I’d also say that the advantage of the syntax is clear: it’s dead simple. Furthermore it downgrades quite nicely.

There are of course problems it does not solve and extra complexity it would introduce; however, I thought I’d write this short email to see if anyone would be interested in discussing the idea.

Thank you for reading,  
Johannes Wärn