#commonmark — Public Fediverse posts

#Markdown has horrible edge cases and despite the valiant effort of #CommonMark, the dialects seem to diverge and multiply over time. I consider switching my personal stuff to #djot where possible: https://djot.net/

Ideas:
- Stop working on #smu https://github.com/karlb/smu and maintain either https://github.com/karlb/cdjot or https://github.com/karlb/minipandoc instead
- Use https://github.com/karlb/gemtext.lua to generate #gemtext (for #geminiprotocol instead of the unmaintained https://github.com/karlb/md2gemini

Thoughts?

🥳 New Kitten¹ release!

Implemented workaround:

There is a bug in the CommonMark spec that results in preformatted code with empty lines nested in an HTML node not rendering correctly.²

In Kitten, this previously threw an error (see #294³ and also #318⁴).

Kitten now works around the issue in its own parser.

Full change log: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/issues/807
³ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues/294
⁴ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues/318

#Kitten #KittenRelease #SmallWeb #SmallTech #CommonMark #spec #bug #workaround #Markdown #web #dev #NodeJS

#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/

Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.

#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin