Back in November, Tiago Silveira updated the JavaScript Textile implementation that powers my Textile Greasemonkey script, but I just hadn’t got around to rolling in his changes, so he’s done the sensible thing, and ro...

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First of all, the link to the script: Textile your textareas with pure JavaScript. Roberto De Almeida has posted a Greasemonkey script that makes all textareas textilable which works by injecting a...

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After my original post about it, it’d probably be good to point out that Jeff Minard has taken the idea and run with it, introducing h tag support br tag support proper html syntax (a few tags were being closed incorrectly.) Various small fixes

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JTextile 1.1 is out! There have been a lot of changes in this version, and a massive amount of bug fixing (for the record, it doesn’t suffer from any of Textile4j’s current bugs). It’s hugely reliable, fast, and easy to embed. It makes use...

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Live textile comment previews. Powered by javascript by Stuart Langridge, and sneakily elicited by me this rocks my world. I can’t wait for Stuart to make a real release. Until you’ve seen your Te...

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Simon writes about the legion of non-HTML text markup languages and introduces his own (we have enough. please stop now. Maybe writing your own markup language is the new “writing your own wiki“, which was the new “writing your own aggregator” ?) Anyway, he points out that anyone entering italic*italic-bo...

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Textpattern by Dean Allen is finally out, and very nice it looks too. A quick play reveals an easy to use (although not entirely gripe-free application). But nevertheless pretty damn good for a 1.1 version. Recently of course, Textile 2.0 (also by Dean Allen) hit the shops, or more rather

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Both Brad Choate and Dean Allen had already mentioned it, and now it comes to fruition – Textile 2. Featuring such stuff as tables, spans, lang= attributes as well as nifty linking shortcuts, this is good news for everyone except the people who have to update their own textile implementat...

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Textile4J (a java port of the Textile humane web text generator from Textism.) has been getting a reasonable...

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I give up. I give in. I concede defeat. Regular expressions have been for a long time been my weakest field, and my attempts to make a Java version of Textile have ended in ignominy. Has anyone already performed this regex-a-plenty task? Or is anyone else willing to give it a go? Go on Lazyweb

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