What you see is NOT ALWAYS what you get

[Kaffeerappel]

I've copy/pasted some text from a website into the editor and it shows up all sorted in there. However, when posting the message, I get this mess:

http://beta.vbulletin.com/vb3/showthread.php?postid=3230&mode=linear#post3230

Guess that's one of the downsides when not enabling HTML. One can't quickly copy/paste some info he found somehwere on the net.

[ToraTora!]

imagine if somebody had HTML code, with java that were a streamline code of 99 alert popups in a row. Enabling HTML would not be a great idea than.
I had a site link for a project a kid (note the word 'kid') did, in which he crammed 250 continual alerts that would load up so many offshoot sites in new windows, while popping up alerts, that it would crash your system.

Not something you want on your forums. ;)

[JamesUS]

Perhaps we could allow a set of 'limited HTML' - ie <br>, <p>, and not much else. Perhaps <font> as well seeing as we are allowing font choice through bbcode.

[Kaffeerappel]

Originally posted by ToraTora!
imagine if somebody had HTML code, with java that were a streamline code of 99 alert popups in a row. Enabling HTML would not be a great idea than.
I had a site link for a project a kid (note the word 'kid') did, in which he crammed 250 continual alerts that would load up so many offshoot sites in new windows, while popping up alerts, that it would crash your system.

Not something you want on your forums. ;)

You sure got a point there. However I am more concerned about not having the possibility anymore to just go to some website and copy/paste a few paragraphs into my postings. The good ol' textbox did all that without any probs at all. :(

[ToraTora!]

Originally posted by JamesUS
Perhaps we could allow a set of 'limited HTML' - ie <br>, <p>, and not much else. Perhaps <font> as well seeing as we are allowing font choice through bbcode.

this would be a correct workaround. allowedhtml type of function that was loaded from the db, or text file which would allow what the admin wanted to have displayed. Of course, the VBcode kind of takes care of most of that anyways, but for situations such as he pointed out, it does bring up some very valid points...many of the new users who are used to copying and pasting articles from newsites are going to have a rude awakening, as will anybody that reads it. :(