Really cool idea
Humans get HTML, bots get markdown. Two tiny tweaks I’d make...
Send Vary: Accept so caches don’t mix Markdown and HTML.
Expose it with a Link: …; rel="alternate"; type="text/markdown" so it’s easy to discover.
Humans get HTML, bots get markdown. Two tiny tweaks I’d make...
Send Vary: Accept so caches don’t mix Markdown and HTML.
Expose it with a Link: …; rel="alternate"; type="text/markdown" so it’s easy to discover.
You can always do the markdown -> DOM conversion on the client. Sure, there's a bit of latency there, but it means easier deployment (no build step involving pandoc or similar).
Browser-native markdown support would be better though; you'd get ability to do proper contenteditable divs with bold, italic, etc done via markdown
It can. Unlikely but possible. A good first step would be to have a well-written web component to be used like this: `<markdown>...</markdown>`, with no support at all for a build-step. The .js file implementing this should be included directly in the `<head>`.
If that gets traction (unlikely, but possible) then the standards would sooner or later introduce a tag native to the browser that does the same thing.