Markdress - Render any markdown URL

http://www.s-anand.net/blog/markdress/

by boundlessdreamz • 15 years ago

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rpicard2• 15 years ago

Cool project. It looks like you need to adjust relative image sources so they will load.

http://markdress.org/goo.gl/zTG1q

sanand04• 15 years ago

Actually, I'd rather leave it to the author of the document, because it seems a tough problem to solve.

At http://markdress.org/goo.gl/zTG1q, for example, the image is linked to an absolute URL: /graphics/markdown/mt_textformat_menu.png. It's going to be a bit cumbersome to traverse through goo.gl and detect that this is actually at http://daringfireball.net/. Might be easier if authors either stuck to pure relative URLs, or full URLs with domains.

But that's just me passing the buck...

buddydvd• 15 years ago

A quick workaround would be to add the `<base>` tag: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/base to your generated HTML and have it point it to the target URL.

FraaJad• 15 years ago

Doesn't work work HTTPS links. (eg: markdown text on github project pages).

rpicard2• 15 years ago

Github renders markdown automatically anyway though.

sanand04• 15 years ago

True. This is something I'm working on. Even with Dropbox, I'd rather use an HTTPS than HTTP.

rgbrgb2• 15 years ago

Cool project! You can add simple caching for free in like a minute with CloudFlare (https://www.cloudflare.com/).

rgbrgb2• 15 years ago

Why is this getting voted down? Is there something about cloudflare i don't know about? He said he hadn't implemented caching yet so I told him an easy way to do it...

Luit• 15 years ago

IMO there's one missing from the list of alternatives: Markdrop (http://www.markdrop.com/) (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3089355)

sanand04• 15 years ago

I've added it now. Thanks.

octavore• 15 years ago

One cool little thing you could add is a javascript widget on the front page, where people could paste in their link to a markdown file, and have it automatically formatted as a Markdress link (or even redirect them to the markdress page).

ps. Thanks for the Pancake.io shoutout!

sanand04• 15 years ago

Added. Thanks for the suggestion!

olalonde• 15 years ago

Misread "Markdness"... Would have been equally fitting :)

Markdress - Render any markdown URL

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