# Is it possible to write a custom client other than a web browser?

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**Created:** [October 18, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-write-a-custom-client-other-than-a-web-browser/51671 "2016-10-18T05:34:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Samuel\_Crow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/samuel_crow/32/271155_2.png) [@Samuel\_Crow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Samuel_Crow)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-write-a-custom-client-other-than-a-web-browser/51671/13 "2016-10-23T08:30:41Z")

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After looking at the CommonMark spec, it appears to have HTML passthrough but maybe I can patch the reference code to generate XHTML 5 instead.

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