Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language

Drool – A Lightweight Markup Language(github.com)

20 points by dou4cc 9 years ago | 31 comments

falsedan 9 years ago |

This is what it looks like:

    * This demo is also a guide when you view the source of this page at the same time.

  to insert a picture	drool code	@@ ./demo.jpeg
  	result	@@./demo.jpeg
  to insert an audio and a video	drool code	@@ ./demo.mp3
  		@@ https://videos.cdn.mozilla.net/uploads/mozillaorg/Mozilla_2014_i_am.webm
  	result	@@./demo.mp3
  		@@https://videos.cdn.mozilla.net/uploads/mozillaorg/Mozilla_2014_i_am.webm
  to insert a link	drool code	There is @@ a link to @@ ./demo.webp https://www.google.com/ncr.
  	result	There is @@a link to @@./demo.webp https://www.google.com/ncr.
  to align right	drool code	--- hello
  		—— 你好
  	result	---hello
  		——你好
  “smart” retract	#include <iostream>
  	
  	int main(){
  		std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl;
  		return 0;
  }

I'll pass.

edit oops I messed up the tabs.

intAligned 9 years ago | |

This would be the output if my version of Chrome (latest) was able to run it:

https://github.com/dou4cc/drool/blob/gh-pages/screenshot.en....

dou4cc 9 years ago | |

This file is a mess because there is a table in the file. When making table in a drool file, I recommand you set tab-size to 25ch.

dou4cc 9 years ago | | |

It is 31ch.....

phonon 9 years ago |

Name is too similar to Drools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drools

dou4cc 9 years ago | |

Name is not important.

phonon 9 years ago | | |

Yes it is.

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

placeybordeaux 9 years ago |

> For details, please visit a demo which requires your browser supporting Element.prototype.append, async functions, WebP, WebM, fetch API, CSS Variables, CSS sticky position, and full of ECMAScript 6. I recommend you use Chromium or Chrome Canary with two flags, chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony and chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features, enabled.

Yikes.

jonathanyc 9 years ago | |

Back to "Works Best in IE"? All of these things can be done without using experimental APIs. It may be a few dozen lines longer, but its not worth having to tell people to use Chrome Canary to test your project. As a Firefox user, this is a complete no-go.

dou4cc 9 years ago | | |

At most 1 year later, firefox will support drool. Firefox does not support drool because it does not support async generator function.

SamBam 9 years ago |

> Compared with markdown, drool is minimal without signals like [ or !. drool will not make a literary article look like programming codes.

looks at demo screenshot

> There is @@a link to @@./demo.webp https://www.google.com/ncr

dou4cc 9 years ago | |

The link content is "a link to @@./demo.webp". "@@./demo.webp" is a picture. Is drool not minimal enough?

SamBam 9 years ago | | |

The content is exactly as I posted it above. There is an @@ before "a link".

I was just saying that this seemed exactly as arbitrary as "[", which is what drool said it was avoiding.

znpy 9 years ago |

I think the org-mode syntax is way superior to markdown and should be more-widely supported.

codemac 9 years ago | |

I do too - however, I've found unless you have editor support it's kind of a bear to edit by hand.

Markdown however isn't too hard with any crappy notepad.

Things like drawers, tables, #+TBLFMT: etc are pretty rough.

nepthar 9 years ago |

Hey there, dou4cc! I think it's pretty cool that you took the time to share your project here. Is this a Show HN type post? If so, you may want to add a bit more information about your motivations for making this and wanting to share this with others.

rspeer 9 years ago |

It's enshrined in the Drool format that every file has to start with a UTF-8 BOM and contain \r\n line breaks?

This sounds like favoring one text editor at the expense of all others, and not a good one. Is this format designed to be edited with Notepad?

michaelmior 9 years ago | |

It was at this point where I decided this was a joke. It's entirely possible I'm just missing the use case though.

dou4cc 9 years ago | |

No. Adding a utf8 bom is just my hobby.

maxpert 9 years ago |

None of the demos are working :S is it just me?

falsedan 9 years ago | |

Not just you.

brudgers 9 years ago |

If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN".

Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

A better title might be Drool: A Kind of Lightweight Markup Language.

Good luck.

dou4cc 9 years ago | |

Thank you.

PaulHoule 9 years ago |

Who needs yet another markup language?

sebbean 9 years ago | |

already exists http://yaml.org/

henryscala 9 years ago | | |

:-)

Idontagree 9 years ago |

I'd pass entirely on the name.

dou4cc 9 years ago | |

I do not even give drool a version which suggests you can fork it and change anything including its name.

* This demo is also a guide when you view the source of this page at the same time. to insert a picture drool code @@ ./demo.jpeg result @@./demo.jpeg to insert an audio and a video drool code @@ ./demo.mp3 @@ https://videos.cdn.mozilla.net/uploads/mozillaorg/Mozilla_2014_i_am.webm result @@./demo.mp3 @@https://videos.cdn.mozilla.net/uploads/mozillaorg/Mozilla_2014_i_am.webm to insert a link drool code There is @@ a link to @@ ./demo.webp https://www.google.com/ncr. result There is @@a link to @@./demo.webp https://www.google.com/ncr. to align right drool code --- hello —— 你好 result ---hello ——你好 “smart” retract #include <iostream> int main(){ std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl; return 0; }