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| author | friendica <info@friendica.com> | 2012-05-12 17:57:41 -0700 |
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| committer | friendica <info@friendica.com> | 2012-07-18 20:40:31 +1000 |
| commit | 7a40f4354b32809af3d0cfd6e3af0eda02ab0e0a (patch) | |
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| parent | cd727cb26b78a1dade09d510b071446898477356 (diff) | |
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some important stuff we'll need
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diff --git a/lib/htmlpurifier/WYSIWYG b/lib/htmlpurifier/WYSIWYG new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c518aacdd --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/htmlpurifier/WYSIWYG @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ + +WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get + HTML Purifier: A Pretty Good Fit for TinyMCE and FCKeditor + +Javascript-based WYSIWYG editors, simply stated, are quite amazing. But I've +always been wary about using them due to security issues: they handle the +client-side magic, but once you've been served a piping hot load of unfiltered +HTML, what should be done then? In some situations, you can serve it uncleaned, +since you only offer these facilities to trusted(?) authors. + +Unfortunantely, for blog comments and anonymous input, BBCode, Textile and +other markup languages still reign supreme. Put simply: filtering HTML is +hard work, and these WYSIWYG authors don't offer anything to alleviate that +trouble. Therein lies the solution: + +HTML Purifier is perfect for filtering pure-HTML input from WYSIWYG editors. + +Enough said. + + vim: et sw=4 sts=4 |