This is really useful, thanks!<p>Is there a subset of markdown (preferably with an implementation in Javascript to render it as HTML) that's limited to just the basic stuff like bold, underline, italics, links, quotes, and code elements? I don't need images, headers, html tags, tables, horizontal lines and the rest.<p>It's not so much about the restrictions I'm worried about. My research has shown that showdownjs is one of the lightest (~30kB) markdown to HTML rendering libraries in JS, but 30kB is still too large for my application. I would trade the above mentioned features for a smaller file size.<p>Any suggestions? I know that I can probably write my own implementation, but I'd rather rely on battle-tested libraries instead of rolling out my own.
Nice work!!<p>I just noticed but there’s an unfortunate naming collision in this space. “Remark” mentioned in the article is a presentation generator [1].<p>The name also refers to a very awesome, pluggable framework for processing markdown text [2].<p>I don’t know if they’re related but that’s very confusing.<p>1 - <a href="https://github.com/gnab/remark" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gnab/remark</a><p>2 - <a href="http://remark.js.org" rel="nofollow">http://remark.js.org</a>
Thanks for doing this.<p>It would be great if there was an explainer that simply had comparisons between different flares of MD - e.g Github flavoured. We are working on an open source project with 80k words in MD at the moment an the small syntax stuff is a nightmare.
Thanks, I submitted a PR. <a href="https://github.com/mattcone/markdown-guide/pull/13" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mattcone/markdown-guide/pull/13</a>