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Why couldn't this be implemented as an extension in an existing browser?

Sending and detecting a different content type (e.g. text/kyu) that triggers (for now) a JS parser that renders the markup used into the HTML that the browser understands

This feels like the best way to get some adoption without having to build a whole new browser

Edit: it also means you could flex away from Markdown and develop your own markup language and parser as and when the need arises



In fact it looks like there are already browser extensions that do this for Markdown:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-viewer/ck... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-preview-p...


I haven't done any browser extension development. Is it possible for browser extensions to be able to read HTTP headers? Is that consistent across all browsers?


Yes and yes.

The Web Extensions standard is coming along quite nicely (at least from my perspective)

But even just targeting a single browser engine to start with feels appropriate just to get the concept out there and see how it flies




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