Originally Posted by
lproven 
Oh, come on. This is 2007 not 1997! If I can post on Livejournal or Flickr or YahooGroups or GoogleGroups or almost any other online forum I'm in using a safe restricted subset of HTML, then there is *no* reason why it can't be done here as well.
I am, if that was not clear, only interested in and asking about posting HTML *in my own blog*. I don't expect or plan to use markup in forum posts at all.
Actually most online forums use bbcode as their standard markup language. It is the standard language in vbulletin, phpbb, and more and they easily make up the majority of communities out there. I'm not saying HTML isn't used, but its use is very small compared to bbcode.
Originally Posted by
lproven It may be, but I'm still not prepared to (1) learn yet another markup language or (2) convert posts from other places, where I'd normally use HTML, into something different for here!
bbcode is great because it is easy to learn and safe to use. And if you don't want to learn it you don't have to. All forum software comes complete with a standard editor that does it all for you. You just click bold and your text is bold, etc.. Just like your favorite word processor. Can't get any easier then that.
Originally Posted by
lproven Gosh, the quoting really sucks as well, doesn't it? 8-o
Works great for me.
Just use the quote button and you're all set.
Originally Posted by
lproven I'm sorry, but I don't buy that. This is a readily-solvable issue with a few subframes. I use HTML daily in posting to Livejournal, both in blog entries and in comments, and I never bother to close tags if I want the effect to run through to the end of my post - I know that LJ will handle it and sort it for me. That is, after all, what computers are for!
I wouldn't go so far as to say computers are here for that. Anyway, if you plan to use HTML you should understand how it works and use it properly. If you're not closing your tags you are not using it properly. Otherwise stick with simpler languages like bbcode. That's why bbcode is standard instead of HTML in most community software.
And frames are a bad thing for so many reasons (accessibility being one of them). They are rarely a good solution for anything.
Originally Posted by
lproven
Nuh-uh. I have thousands of entries in various places around the web, and the common language is HTML.
Actually bbcode is by far the defacto community/forum language. And I mean by a country mile.
Originally Posted by
lproven It's not that I can't learn a new markup; it's that I won't. :-)
If you know HTML then you already know 98% of bbcode. Except instead of using < and > you use [ and ]. Plus bbcode has far less rules then HTML. Anyone hwo knows HTML can learn bbcode in 5 minutes or less. It's
that simple.
