forum needs markdown support
Vanilla advertises (http://vanillaforums.com/features/user-experience) the options of:
Markdown: **Bold!**
BBCode: [b]Bold![/b]
HTML: Bold!
So it seems at the moment HTML is enabled. (Presumably only the safer tags...) Not sure that is the best choice for all users.
Yeah, it's an "or" kind of thing. Filed https://github.com/JasonBarnabe/greasyfork/issues/127 to let users have the option.
Still no BBcode?... It's such a PITB! I forget this is the only forum i visit that doesn't use it, so i constantly use BBCode here and HTML everywhere else after posting here ... and constantly correcting wrong formatting everywhere! and swear like a shoemaker. May of us use BBCode exts. for a reason - convenience. Why can't we have it working here (and us.o, of course)?
Because Vanilla lets me pick only one markup, and if I picked BBcode then I'm mad because I can't do HTML and Owyn and Jefferson Scher are mad because they still can't do Markdown.
I would need to write a plugin to let people pick their markup, and that's what that GitHub issue is for.
I see. Thanks!
Actually, markdown seems to be the least developed of the three, and it's the one I know the least, so I won't object to BBCode. Does the forum have a poll feature?
I don't think I'm going to switch the default. I'm going to add the option.
I don't think I'm going to switch the default. I'm going to add the option.
A plugin that let users switch sounds way better. Hoping something exists or you can easy write it.
... markdown seems to be the least developed of the three...
Can you corroborate that statement...
even if so, markdown is the most easy one with least symbols needed to markup something
The easiest is to use BBCodeXtra and let it do it for you with a couple of clicks
so maybe easiest is to hire a scribe to do all the markup for me then? ;)
I'm talking about actually writing markup.
... markdown seems to be the least developed of the three...Can you corroborate that statement...
By least developed, I mean, missing features of HTML and BBCode that I use. For example, I copied my markdown for tables from another site into my script description and they did not render as tables.
|heading|heading|
|---|---|
|text|text|
Part of the problem might be that different sites use different subsets or extensions of markdown, just as BBCode is not equally supported on different sites and gets extended in an ad hoc manner. So I shouldn't blame markdown itself...
By least developed, I mean, missing features of HTML and BBCode that I use. For example, I copied my markdown for tables from another site into my script description and they did not render as tables.... markdown seems to be the least developed of the three...Can you corroborate that statement...
...
Part of the problem might be that different sites use different subsets or extensions of markdown, just as BBCode is not equally supported on different sites and gets extended in an ad hoc manner. So I shouldn't blame markdown itself...
Indeed, and what you're refering to is "GitHub Flavored Markdown" (GFM). Something I highly recommend we use for Markdown.
HTML: srazzano/Sonny made this great custombutton that I use for
userstyles.org userscripts.org greasyfork.org
http://custombuttons.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1068&sid=33768c5a80b091b619aec6b4c70db218
MARKDOWN: morat created this Custombutton that I requested and I tagged:
http://custombuttons.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1867&sid=a00c994c86daf87b07440d0fb8cc9683
Custombuttons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-buttons/ So nice to see you on this forum Jefferson Scher ! ❤
Indeed, and what you're refering to is "GitHub Flavored Markdown" (GFM). Something I highly recommend we use for Markdown.
+1
forum needs markdown support
at least comments to userscripts need markdown support, plain text isn't really great to discuss things (and code especially)