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Browser option to make hyperlinks clickable when rendering text files? Or client-side browser rendering of text-based markdown.

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Having browsers intelligently render `text/markdown` sounds like a great idea. And while we're waiting on the browser implementation, maybe we can find some sort of temporary workaround to send a markdown parser to the client?

Maybe we could just send the raw markdown anyway - it might not be pretty on all clients, but it should be _legible_ on all clients.

Or maybe we could send markdown if the user agent included text/markdown in the request's Accept header, and pipe it through a markdown->HTML filter otherwise.

I would love to see some kind of native markdown support on the web.

A web search turned up this Firefox plugin, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-view..., are there other good ones?

As long as I can make text blink, I'm happy.

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