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Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by rpicard on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:18PM (#3308534)
Cool project. It looks like you need to adjust relative image sources so they will load.

http://markdress.org/goo.gl/zTG1q

Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by sanand0 on Saturday December 03, 2011 @04:42PM (#3308948)
Actually, I'd rather leave it to the author of the document, because it seems a tough problem to solve.

At http://markdress.org/goo.gl/zTG1q, for example, the image is linked to an absolute URL: /graphics/markdown/mt_textformat_menu.png. It's going to be a bit cumbersome to traverse through goo.gl and detect that this is actually at http://daringfireball.net/. Might be easier if authors either stuck to pure relative URLs, or full URLs with domains.

But that's just me passing the buck...

Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by buddydvd on Saturday December 03, 2011 @08:31PM (#3309531)
A quick workaround would be to add the `<base>` tag: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/base to your generated HTML and have it point it to the target URL.
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by Luit on Saturday December 03, 2011 @03:15PM (#3308672)
IMO there's one missing from the list of alternatives: Markdrop (http://www.markdrop.com/) (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3089355)
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by sanand0 on Saturday December 03, 2011 @04:30PM (#3308905)
I've added it now. Thanks.
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by tpwong on Saturday December 03, 2011 @08:26PM (#3309518)
One cool little thing you could add is a javascript widget on the front page, where people could paste in their link to a markdown file, and have it automatically formatted as a Markdress link (or even redirect them to the markdress page).

ps. Thanks for the Pancake.io shoutout!

Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by sanand0 on Sunday December 04, 2011 @03:16AM (#3310199)
Added. Thanks for the suggestion!
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by olalonde on Saturday December 03, 2011 @09:06PM (#3309607)
Misread "Markdness"... Would have been equally fitting :)
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by FraaJad on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:34PM (#3308564)
Doesn't work work HTTPS links. (eg: markdown text on github project pages).
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by rpicard on Saturday December 03, 2011 @04:06PM (#3308819)
Github renders markdown automatically anyway though.
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by sanand0 on Saturday December 03, 2011 @04:30PM (#3308909)
True. This is something I'm working on. Even with Dropbox, I'd rather use an HTTPS than HTTP.
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by rgbrgb on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:58PM (#3308628)
Cool project! You can add simple caching for free in like a minute with CloudFlare (https://www.cloudflare.com/).
Re:Markdress - Render any markdown URL by rgbrgb on Sunday December 04, 2011 @07:26PM (#3312386)
Why is this getting voted down? Is there something about cloudflare i don't know about? He said he hadn't implemented caching yet so I told him an easy way to do it...