Markdown
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Markdown[9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004, in collaboration with Aaron Swartz,[10][11] as a markup language that is intended to be easy to read in its source code form.[9] Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.
Filename extensions | |
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Internet media type | text/markdown [2] |
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | net.daringfireball.markdown |
Developed by | |
Initial release | March 9, 2004 (20 years ago) (2004-03-09)[3][4] |
Latest release | |
Type of format | Open file format[6] |
Extended to | pandoc, MultiMarkdown, Markdown Extra, CommonMark,[7] RMarkdown[8] |
Website | daringfireball |
The initial description of Markdown[12] contained ambiguities and raised unanswered questions, causing implementations to both intentionally and accidentally diverge from the original version. This was addressed in 2014 when long-standing Markdown contributors released CommonMark, an unambiguous specification and test suite for Markdown.[13]