Originally Posted by lproven

> Unfortunately you're alone in this belief. And bbcode isn't proprietary. Everyone can, and most do, use it.

I'm not, you know.

Q.v.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbcode

"Some implementations of BBCode have suffered problems related to the way they translate the BBCode into HTML, which could negate the security that was intended to be given by BBCode. A properly constructed HTML filter (of which there are a seeming infinitude of freely available) easily negates the need for users to learn another poorly defined, inconsistently implemented markup language. There is also currently no standards document for BBCode."

It's a daft idea. Making people learn a new markup language which the web forum then converts into the language the forum itself is designed and rendered in is virtually a definition of "redundant".