Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?
Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?
There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.
The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.
I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.
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Depending where you use it, but often tables are available in markdown.
markdown table x y |markdown|table| |--|---| |x|y|Fixed..cos you could only see rendered and not code.
Oh. Good one. Markdown everywhere. Slack always pissed me off for it's sub par markdown support.
There is an option in the settings to use markdown formatting. I haven't tried it but I guess it at least makes formatting less annoying.
It's a (small, shitty) subset of markdown. Slack formatting just kind of sucks.
Markdown tables are terrible though. Try and put a code block in there. Adoc tables are amazing on the other hand, but much more verbose to write.
I fixed it for you (markdown tables support padding to make them easy to read):
markdown table x y |markdown|table| |--------|-----| |x |y |deleted by creator, who realised their misunderstanding
I'd argue this syntax is difficult to read, especially as it scales
The syntax is only difficult to read in their example.
I fixed their example here: https://programming.dev/comment/12087783