Markdress - Render any markdown URL(s-anand.net)

52 pointsby boundlessdreamz15 anni fa13 comments

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

6 comments

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

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

sanand015 anni fa

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...

buddydvd15 anni fa

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.

Luit15 anni fa

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

sanand015 anni fa

I've added it now. Thanks.

octavore15 anni fa

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!

sanand015 anni fa

Added. Thanks for the suggestion!

olalonde15 anni fa

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

FraaJad15 anni fa

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

rpicard15 anni fa

Github renders markdown automatically anyway though.

sanand015 anni fa

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

rgbrgb15 anni fa

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

rgbrgb15 anni fa

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...