#Qaiku-api

in Markdown, #Qaiku would mean first level heading, but in Qaiku-API hashes refer to channels. The Qaiku user interface explains what kind of Markdown formatting is allowed, but the API doesn't.

The API specification doesn't tell whether it also returns messages Markdown formatted. Markdown is only mentioned in "Posting new messages" part.

At least the links in returned messages are in Markdown format.

I cannot use a generic Markdown parser to display messages, since it will convert channel references to h1 elements (at least in the beginning of paragraphs).

@Samuel In the next Qaiku release (coming out soon), there will be preformated html field in message payload. Does this satisfy your needs?

@TomiS Yes, thanks. (Hopefully the HTML markup will be adequate and concentrates on semantics rather than styling.)

@Samuel Well. It's practically the same function that is used for visualizing all qaiku message loops.

Will it contain stuff like

span class="rounded_image rounded_image_40_borders_grey qaiku_js_quickselect"

or just the formatting inside span.entry-title?

@Samuel just the message text formatted via Markdown

@TomiS just what I wanted. It has a small bug though: it strips away spaces after links:
<a href="/home/Samuel/">@Samuel</a>Well. It's practically the same function that is used for visualizing all qaiku message loops.<br />

Since the links are relative, I have to write some logic of my own to convert them to absolute links.