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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 |