Should markdown preserve newlines in blockquotes?

The original markdown ‘specs’ are highly ambiguous and not maintained. There is of course the perl script markdown.pl, the ‘reference implementation’, though it has many familiar oddities. You might join the list http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/ which is forever complaining about the contradictory situation the matter is in due to Gruber’s corruption. Perhaps the list users will have … Read more

Is there a way to add an animated GIF to a Markdown file?

Showing gifs need two things 1- Use this syntax as in these examples ![Alt Text](https://media.giphy.com/media/vFKqnCdLPNOKc/giphy.gif) Yields: 2- The image url must end with gif 3- For posterity: if the .gif link above ever goes bad, you will not see the image and instead see the alt-text and URL, like this: 4- for resizing the gif … Read more