Open stevejpurves opened 1 year ago
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Welcome to the EBP community! :tada:
Thanks @stevejpurves for brining this up! I worked with @choldgraf and @mmcky to get this done, and we have finished the registration process.
This is now super official!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
text/markdown;variant=myst
We went with lowercase, similar to pandoc and quarto.
I will leave this up to document in the spec docs.
IANA accepted an official registration for the
text/markdown
mimetype here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/markdownSection 6.1 of the RFC specified a IANA based registry for markdown variants that is established here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/markdown-variants/markdown-variants.xhtml
The list of variants registered is woefully lacking but the registration mechanism allow formalize which mimetype variant parameter should be used to identify a flavor of markdown.
i.e.
text/markdown;variant=MYST
ortext/markdown;variant=GFM
Even having an open draft RFC (probably for years) might allow us to establish and register the MYST parameter at least somewhat formally.
It is also worth noting that
pandoc
additionally provides for more parameters, that can specify which extensions/directives are loaded.