[jacobparker]

Does anyone know what happened to the push (primarily by Atwood) to create a spec for Markdown (possibly with a different name)?

[vially]

Apparently it wasn't very successful: https://twitter.com/gruber/status/262287246953164800

[dalai]

That was posted the same day Atwood made the suggestion and although it would be nice if Gruber would play along, there is no need he actually does.