[theforum] Allowable tags in content in new site

[Jeff Howden]

Martin,

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> From: Martin Burns
>
> Respectfully, no, I disagree.
>
> [snip]
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> This is particularly frequent in job postings, which are
> more often than not submitted by people who are not
> typical evolt members, but who want to employ them.
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Actually, they're not interested in employing evolt.org members so much as
they're interested in getting as much exposure for their job opening as
possible.  Make 'em earn it, I say.

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> To ensure we're talking about the same thing, if you
> look at the form:
> http://test.evolt.org/node/add/story
> you'll see that users who can do full(ish) HTML are
> able to choose that option. Hell, I can even make it
> the default option.
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I see no formatting options form field.

More importantly, I get "Access denied" when I try to access that URL.

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> > +1, although munging them to proper xhtml may be
> > useful.
>
> OK, although again, I'm fed up of cleaning up after
> authors submitting
>
> [snip]
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> cos to them, it looks right when they submit.
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That's a BS reason.

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> > This brings up the point of styles and scripts (and
> > other, currently restricted, tags).  If they're
> > necessary for an article, how is an author to add
> > them?
>
> Can you point me to an article when this has been
> needed?
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http://evolt.org/article/js/17/16286/

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> We already tell users "don't *demonstrate* scripts/CSS
> tricks on our pages, link to an external page".
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External examples *suck*, imo.  I think they should be included inline as
often as possible.

Jeff