Archive for April 10th, 2007
RestructuredText, Markdown, and Textile (and typography)
When I first discovered Dean Allen’s Textile I thought it was god’s gift to light-weight markup languages. For the next two years I used it everywhere possible, even so much as to write a few school papers (in part) using the syntax. It was trying to use textile for non-web purposes that finally removed my blinders to alternatives.
ReST for Markdown and Textile Users
ReStructuredText is freaking huge so users of lighter-weight markup languages can be easily put off. This is an absolute basics quickref to ReST for those kinds of users. Eye-ball the Closing at the bottom for a bit more perspective.
Headers Just use non-alphanumeric characters to underline (or under-and-overline) your heading. It doesn’t matter what you use, just be consistent with the character […]
Cool URIs don’t change; so what’s considered ‘cool’?
I’ve given a lot of thought, lately, to the famous Cool URIs don’t change W3C document. Should URLs end in a slash or not? Should they end in a file-extension or not? (What if you’re serving multiple formats of the same document?)
I’ve been using a trailing slash (for, admittedly, no defensible reason: the Django guys […]