Textarea support

[Iristyle]

Came across this and was impressed... pretty awesome.

There are a few other cases where this would be even more useful -- within standard <textarea>.

• Forums like phpBB or vBulletin that want BBCode (BBCode sucks compared to Markdown)
• Craigslist thats OK with HTML
• Other textarea based sites

So I'm not sure the best approach -- could overlay the existing textarea with a contenteditable div... or mod the DOM to add the attribute to the textarea -- which probably has side effects.

Just thought I'd throw it out there -- this would increase the utility of this extension quite a bit IMHO.

Thanks for the consideration!

[adam-p]

This is interesting, but I think it lays outside the domain of Markdown Here. There are certainly lessons and code from MDH that could be applied to a textarea converter, but I think it's just to different to make sense in this extension.

I think it would be somewhat easier to build and maintain a textarea converter than MDH, since you're replacing the text content of a textarea with different content, rather than messing with the DOM inside a contenteditable element (often inside an iframe). There would probably be fewer browser-specific gotchas.

If you choose to implement it and want to start from the structure of MDH, I'd be happy to answer any questions.