markdown viewer

[Dev1lroot]

We already have the JSON viewer unlike many other browsers including google chrome, that's why Mozilla Firefox is the best browser for developers.

But now I know we need to create a viewer also for markdown files, and ability to read it in browser instead of downloading which is the action for them in present.

Reasons:

- access to raw documentations

- no default markdown viewer in Windows

- some debugging tools outputs markdown report which presents as plain text without formatting

- Firefox already supports JSON & XML

- No compatible plugins for this feature, all down or doesn't work

[Jon]

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

[Honza]

That's and interesting idea, I like it.

Could you please file a bug here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=File%20Handling

So, it isn't forgotten here and goes through regular triage.

Thank you!

[noraj]

If a markdown preview there will be, a markdown parser will be required. Here is the standard specification (CommonMark): https://commonmark.org/, https://spec.commonmark.org/.

[saschaleib]

+1 for this idea – Markdown offers a very lightweight alternative for sharing text content, is widely used and compatible, and best of all, gets rid of a lot of ballast that is really only useful for pushing ads into our faces. Having it as an alternative format would definitely be a plus. Also, it should be rather easy to implement.

For my own use-cases, I am currently using a plugin that can render Markdown files ("docu.md"), but of course, it would be much more useful if MD support came "out of the box", not least because then one could share the links without the instruction to "install a plugin first" 🙂