forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 5 08:32:59 PDT 2015


On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 14:16:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> What about supporting only a few features like hyperlinks and 
>> code blocks? These should be unambiguous and not conflict with 
>> anything.
>
> Yes, we could do that, with the downside of implementing our 
> own Markdown variant with its own instruction manual. But we 
> already use footnotes for hyperlinks by convention, and code 
> already looks fine, so what's the gain? Syntax highlighting?

Nice hyperlinks and syntax highlighting.

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 14:19:06 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
>> 5. You can't edit posts once sent. This means that if you 
>> accidentally
>> messed up the formatting (e.g. you pasted code without padding 
>> it with
>> whitespace or surrounding it in ```...``` blocks), you can't 
>> go back and
>> edit it now.
>
> This. I mess up markdown all the time. If I can't edit, I'd be 
> screwed :)

Conventional hyperlinks are not going anywhere :)

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:45:58 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> It may be that we have lost potential participants because they
>> clicked away from the page within seconds of realising there 
>> was no
>> oauth (I definitely would).
>
> It's doable but just seems a little overkill to me. Every time 
> I looked into implementing OAuth I was swamped by how overly 
> complicated it was (or maybe I just never found a 
> succint-enough description).

AFAIK, Nick wanted to write OAuth support library in D.


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