Showdown blog (easy as sandwich)

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Built with Showdown/Markdown and JQuery

• 110.0K minified (swblog.min.js + showdown.min.js + fdate.min.js + sh_main.min.js + jquery-1.4.3.min.js)
• swblog.js is 18.0K, swblog.min.js is 11.2K, swblog.min.js.gz is 3.1K

Benefits

• Minimal
• No server-side. At all.
• Posts are in Markdown syntax
• Single post is separate xml-file
• XML-configurable
• CSS-stylable
• Supports tags and tags navigation
• Supports permalinks to the post
• Supports mobile
• You can use several entry-points
• RSS-generating script/XSL included
• SHJS-based source code highlighting for programmers (only for single posts)
• Bonus: A sandwitch-driven Tumblr theme, with code highlighting and twitter support (Install at Tumblr)

Drawbacks

• No commenting support
• Search-engines can't see us, may be we can teach them parse xml's too
• Only for Javascript-enabled browsers
• Javascript/JQuery takes time to render at slow network
• Without .htaccess, you need to specify index.html part in blog URL
• Things to optimize

May be later

• Paging support
• Successive loading
• Templating support
• Better looking RSS / Automate RSS updates
• Calendar