Markdown Support

[Jeff Wheeler]

It would be incredibly awesome if instead of, or in addition to, bbcodes, we had Markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) support. It allows you to use a nice, logical syntax to get clean, nice code as an output.

Basically, it is just a text formatter. There's also a php one available here:
http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/

You can learn about the syntax here:
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

And try it out here (with an explanation of most of the tags on the right):
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus

I've been using it for a long time, and I really love it. We should get it, too. :)

[Jeff Wheeler]

(bump)

[kirupa]

I'll look into it :)

[Jeff Wheeler]

Wahoo! Thanks :)

[Seb Hughes]

Nifty :D

[Jeff Wheeler]

It's only nifty if it's implemented.

[nobody]

Markdown is a real cool feature though I doubt that vBulletin has an official extension for it or anything. Makes writing things naturally turn pretty once parsed though, so that's always fun.

[bigmtnskier]

Sorry for being ignorant but... Is that what wikipedia uses?

[Jeff Wheeler]

No, but it's somewhat similar.