[theforum] Allowable tags in content in new site

[William Anderson]

Jeff Howden wrote:
> Martin,
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>>From: Martin Burns
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>>1) Auto-add all the para tags, and severely limit the
>>   acceptable HTML to really innocuous stuff
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> Bad idea.  Authors should submit with proper markup.

+1 - we can't be seen to be mollycoddling our *web-developer* community!

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>>2) limit the tags to those in our code guide.
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>>[...]
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>><b>
>><i>
>><hr>
>><br>
>>and added <q>
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> Don't remove <br> or <hr>.  There are both useful in articles and may be
> necessary to illustrate a point.

+1, although munging them to proper xhtml may be useful.

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