Rich text formatting is now available on forum.dlang.org

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 4/1/21 8:57 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 18:22:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On the other hand, I am able to add headers other than Content-Type. 
>> So, perhaps Vladimir can support something like the following?
>>
>>   X-Markup: markdown
> 
> This method of advertising Markdown content was chosen because there is 
> precedent for it:
> 
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Content-Type%22+%22markup%3Dmarkdown%22
> 
> As such, I think deviating from this convention would not be in line 
> with maximizing interoperability.
> 
> I think the best way to add this to Thunderbird would be to write a 
> small extension. Perhaps the extension could even provide a preview of 
> the Markdown render, which would be useful to avoid accidentally 
> mis-formatting the text, or even allow authoring messages in a WYSIWYG 
> style (using one of the many available JavaScript/HTML Markdown WYSIWYG 
> editors).
> 

You can support both Content-Type and X-Markup (or whatever), no? I 
mean, we are talking the difference between writing a custom plugin for 
a desktop application and changing a couple lines in the server to look 
at a possible other header.

-Steve