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#6 Re: New formatting options Posted by Steve (80.68.xx.xx) on Thu 1 Feb 2007 at 09:56 I'm using the Text::Textile Perl module (this site is 100% perl-based!) so almost anything supported by that should be allowed. The process works like this: Text entry. Conversion to HTML via the Text::Textile module. Filtering to avoid javascript injection, and prohibited tags. Insertion/Display. I might be filtering things out at step 3, but otherwise I'd expect everything to work correctly. I'll take a look at the dashing options and the centering - I'm pretty sure centering is something which is being filtered, on the basis that I don't explicitly allow it and it hasn't ever seemed important before! As for the on-the-fly conversion, not yet. It does make sense but first I'd have to retroactively add a "comment type" column to the comments table - and for the moment it seems simplest to leave everything in the database as HTML and not treat textile/anything else specially. (Perhaps in retrospect it was a bad decision to store comments as HTML in the database, but at least it wasn't my decision ;) Thanks very much for taking the time to test it. Steve
I'm using the Text::Textile Perl module (this site is 100% perl-based!) so almost anything supported by that should be allowed.
The process works like this:
I might be filtering things out at step 3, but otherwise I'd expect everything to work correctly. I'll take a look at the dashing options and the centering - I'm pretty sure centering is something which is being filtered, on the basis that I don't explicitly allow it and it hasn't ever seemed important before!
As for the on-the-fly conversion, not yet. It does make sense but first I'd have to retroactively add a "comment type" column to the comments table - and for the moment it seems simplest to leave everything in the database as HTML and not treat textile/anything else specially.
(Perhaps in retrospect it was a bad decision to store comments as HTML in the database, but at least it wasn't my decision ;)
Thanks very much for taking the time to test it.
Steve
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