Renders markdown documents as if they were native html pages

Latest Version

Version
1.0.3
Update
August 18, 2014
Size
40.25KiB
Developer
witiko.blogspot.com
Category
Users
113
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Markdown document renderer Extension

Over the last couple of years, markdown has become the de-facto standard for writing prose and poetry alike. Borrowing its syntax from plaintext e-mail formatting conventions, markdown has been praised for its slenderness as much as its easy readability.

With the language having become so prominent, it is difficult to see why none of the major web browsers comes pre-packed with the ability to render markdown documents. For this reason, I have put together a simple userscript wrapper around the markdown renderer, which ensures that any pages with the .md, .mdown, .markdn or .markdown suffix are rendered as an html document rather than plain text.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "converted_from_user_script": true, "name": "Markdown document renderer", "short_name": "Takedown", "author": "Witiko ", "description": "Renders markdown documents as if they were native html pages", "version": "1.0.3", "icons": { "16": "icon16.png", "48": "icon48.png", "128": "icon128.png" }, "content_scripts": [ { "exclude_globs": [ ], "include_globs": [ "*.markdown", "*.markdn", "*.mdown", "*.md" ], "matches": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ], "js": [ "takedown.user.js" ], "run_at": "document_end" } ]}
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