ReMarkdown: about, details, sampler, issues

Limitations and known issues

ReMarkdown was tested on recent versions of modern browsers. It works well in all browsers with complete CSS 2.1 support, including IE8. It will degrade not-so-gracefully in IE7.

Browser-specific issues

• IE8 does not render generated content in HR elements. Your horizontal rules will be invisible in that browser.
• IE8, in print mode, has trouble with the overflowing “>” signs of blockquotes.
• Spotted a few issues when printing in Firefox 4b on OSX. I opened two bug reports and both were fixed (yay!), so Firefox 4 final should be ok.
• Spotted a few minor issues when printing in Opera 11 on OSX.

Underlined headings

To achieve the style of underlined H1 and H2 elements, I had to pick one of the various position schemes/behaviors/display modes/etc. of CSS that restrict an element’s width to the width of its contents. All of the options I could figure out had unwanted side effects. I settled for display:inline-block but it’s far from a perfect solution. Two consequences:

1. Spacing above and below titles may be off in a few configurations (issues caused by the lack of margin collapsing).
2. Having two underlined headings in a row is dangerous. Typically, an underlined H2 following an underlined H1 might end up on the same line. So such H2 elements are switched back to display:block (a very dirty fix).

Lists

• Ordered lists use a custom CSS counter, not the default counter. Only way to change the counter style (from numeric to roman or something else) is to change the CSS for “remarkdowned” OLs.
• The start attribute of OL elements is ignored. If you know a way to use it in a CSS counter, email me.

Reporting issues

Please write to bugs @ covertprestige.info.