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Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 1 week ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why don't browsers know how to render a Markdown content-type yet, all by themselves? It's ubiquitous now and it's not like it's hard to parse, but every site has to translate it into HTML itself for the browser.

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are many flavours and extensions of markdown. For example rendering of a table is not part of the standard. How newlines are handled also differ.

to have all browsers support this, this need to be made into a web standard. And all agreed by different browser vendors (like chrome, safari and firefox).

right now this might be best handled by browser extension first.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why can't I just write this up as a PR to Firefox and stand a snowball's chance of getting it merged, though? Everything's somehow simultaneously extremely stodgy and completely beholden to whatever Google decides to ship this week.