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    Stack Overflow supports an alternative syntax for
    this use case:
    
      Our primary landing page is <http://www.example.com>
   
    Again, this is not knowledge that the user can take
    with them to other Markdown based sites.
Actually, that is part of the markdown spec. See: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#autolink


The fact that the other ambiguity references a stackoverflow article suggests that the author may not have actually looked at the spec.

TBH the article reads like an elaborate advertisement for Creole.


The material you quote is confusing, but what Stack Overflow and GitHub do that Markdown does not define is allowing auto-linking of URLs without the angle brackets. That is, http://ajh.us/ on SO or GH is the same as <http://ajh.us/>; on any Markdown-based system.




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