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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Just a quick note that some people are making noise about Markdown standardisati
   * <http://markdown.github.com/>
   * <http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html>
   * <http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer>
   * <http://markdown.github.com/>
   * <http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html>
   * <http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer>

+  * <http://commonmark.org/>

 
 It might be worth following...
 
 
 It might be worth following...
 


@@ -15,3 +16,22 @@ It might be worth following...
 > Markdown unless someone either changes the behaviour of Discount,
 > or recommends a different (and hopefully better) third-party library.
 > --[[smcv]]
 > Markdown unless someone either changes the behaviour of Discount,
 > or recommends a different (and hopefully better) third-party library.
 > --[[smcv]]

+
+> I am not sure the noise is so much "recent" anymore: that article
+> announcing Commonmark is from 2012 and markdown.github.com is from
+> around 2014. Presumably, Commonmark will become official in 2016,
+> but you know what they say about [standards][]...
+>
+> I guess the only thing that Ikiwiki would need to do would be to
+> somewhat support Commonmark. There's a [Perl library][] that wraps
+> the C library, but nothing native yet.
+>
+> I guess we would need to test how it performs and compares with 
+> Discount, but having it as a third party module is up for anyone's
+> grab. It should be a fairly simple implementation after all...
+> Then it should probably be mentionned in [this discussion][] for 
+> everyone's benefit as well. --[[anarcat]]
+ 
+[standards]: https://xkcd.com/927/
+[Perl library]: https://metacpan.org/release/CommonMark
+[this discussion]: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/i-wonder-if-there-is-a-wiki-engine-that-uses-markdown/1281/18