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Awesome idea, but it's already been done: http://gist.io/

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Wow, how did I not know that?!

Well, time for mkdown to pivot and rebrand as "gist.io but without serifs."

Seriously though, looks like they did a great job.

It's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript

why is that nice? Isn't that like saying, "it's nice because it works on an EGA monitor"? javascript is a much as part of "the web" as html.

1) I don't have enough CPU and memory to run everyone's JavaScript in hundreds of tabs

2) JavaScript is an additional vector for exploits

3) Wayback Machine can't archive and render most JavaScript-only content

4) Most search engines besides Google can't index JavaScript-only content

there are trivial ways around all of these, except the first one and that's just ridiculous anyway.

JS is much like salt for flavoring--the less required the better.

If everything worked in elinks we'd live in a perfect world.

Elinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

    > Wow, how did I not know that?

To keep track of the fascinating and rapidly evolving Markdown ecosystem, I maintain an inventory¹ of Markdown dialects, editors, parsers, stylesheets, various tools, etc.

Kudos on Mkdown.com! It’s been added to the list.²

¹ https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources ² https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/blob/master/m...

I have already found a differentiator: mkdown supports private gists, which is a boon for me.

compared to gist.io, I like mkdown style better.

Can we have custom title too? this gist[1] titled "Learning Haskell" but in mkdown[2] it just say "Gist 8739525" in it's title.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525

[2]: http://www.mkdown.com/8739525

Would grabbing the first header work for you? For the introductory post that would be perfect. http://www.mkdown.com/8485599

This seems like a good option for most gists, but for parent's specific use case it would just say "Primary course".

(This seems like more of a problem with the specific gist rather than with your idea.)

I was going to say the same thing. Something about the typography on mkdown is more visually appealing.

I much prefer mkdown's styling, but I think the initial fade-in is unnecessary.

"Learning Haskell" is filled in the description of the gist. Descriptions can be fairly lengthy and not always suitable as titles. However, I think it would be awesome to support metadata in a form like in Jekyll posts or something similar.

Because you wanted to build something cool and didn't care if it existed or not:

https://www.google.com/search?q=markdown+gist&oq=markdown+gi...

There's nothing wrong with that, I bet you enjoyed it and now everyone has a very nice alternative.

What about different themes? URLs would be easy still:

mkdown.com/abc123?theme=light or mkdown.com/abc123/light

I like the non-querystring one (the latter). Even though it might be less technically correct it's more aesthetically pleasing.

What about light.mkdown.com/abc123 ?

Yeah, I like that, would be cool. Thanks!

+1 for that request; specifically (even a simple variation on the current one) where the type was a fixed-width font.

Doesn't matter. You don't have to be always original all the time. It's a really useful project, bookmarked.

I prefer Mkdown's look, but I think a slightly wider text area would improve on it. It seems a little too narrow compared to gist.io.

Ordered lists seem to be missing by the way.

The seem to be working for me: http://www.mkdown.com/a712c1ee8c3bf8375720

Mind giving me a link to what you're looking at?

The enumerators seem to be missing on Firefox and IE. Working correctly on Safari and Chrome.

Edit: IE8, did not test with a more recent version.

I dig your mkdown design, it's beautiful. Cheers!

FWIW, I like yours a lot more.

gist.io seems broken, just tried it ,doesnt work with my gists.

gist.io/3d0b9deab6f5969c354b

http://www.roughdraft.io is another tool - honestly, I like seeing more of these so that we have options that do things slightly differently.

mkdown does private. Gist.io does not support private. +1 for mkdown!

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