Cloudflare has announced a new feature that automatically serves websites in Markdown to AI agents. With Markdown for Agents, the company is responding to
Why don’t browsers know how to render a Markdown content-type yet, all by themselves? It’s ubiquitous now and it’s not like it’s hard to parse, but every site has to translate it into HTML itself for the browser.
There are many flavours and extensions of markdown. For example rendering of a table is not part of the standard. How newlines are handled also differ.
to have all browsers support this, this need to be made into a web standard. And all agreed by different browser vendors (like chrome, safari and firefox).
right now this might be best handled by browser extension first.
Why can’t I just write this up as a PR to Firefox and stand a snowball’s chance of getting it merged, though? Everything’s somehow simultaneously extremely stodgy and completely beholden to whatever Google decides to ship this week.
Why don’t browsers know how to render a Markdown content-type yet, all by themselves? It’s ubiquitous now and it’s not like it’s hard to parse, but every site has to translate it into HTML itself for the browser.
There are many flavours and extensions of markdown. For example rendering of a table is not part of the standard. How newlines are handled also differ.
to have all browsers support this, this need to be made into a web standard. And all agreed by different browser vendors (like chrome, safari and firefox).
right now this might be best handled by browser extension first.
Why can’t I just write this up as a PR to Firefox and stand a snowball’s chance of getting it merged, though? Everything’s somehow simultaneously extremely stodgy and completely beholden to whatever Google decides to ship this week.
yas! do it