Markdown friendly synatx highlighting

[Ivan Sagalaev]

Hello everyone!

I am using markdown on my blog (Markdown Extra actually, thank you 
Michel!). I use code snippets heavily and I really appreciate that I 
shouldn't escape '<' and '>' manually. However I always wanted to use 
syntax highlighting for code snippets and it's a bit hard with markdown 
because most highlighters require some indication of a code language 
and/or of a code block itself. And there is no means in markdown to 
supply it (to me knowledge at least).

So I wrote my own syntax highlighter that works entirely in Javascript 
and, most importantly, doesn't require any custom HTML classes for code 
blocks. Basically it looks for all <pre><code>...</code></pre> detects a 
language and highlights it automagically. Which also means that you 
won't have to do anything to your markdown content if you decide to use 
the highlighter. Language autodetection is done heuristically and while 
works pretty well will certainly fail from time to time. For such cases 
there are means to specify language explicitly thought you should fall 
back to HTML for this.

If this sounds interesting please get it and let me know what you think: 
http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/

Thank you!