>> posted by JoshPet:
>> But allowing HTML in your forum to general users is a very bad and dangerous idea
>> posted by Twisty:
>> Imo anyone who enables HTML for regular users without hacking in extra security measures (that's what I did) is playing Russian Roulette. It's not something I would personally do anyway.
It scares me too, but it's needed in one of 20 forums - to line up numbers in tables. It's not a permanent setting - it's turned it off and on as and when one of the mods, SG, or myself require it to post a table.
>> posted by Twisty:
>> if the users have the right to post HTML in newpost/newreply in the first place, then editing said post should not revert back to UBB only. Their 'rights' should remain constant
>> posted by JoshPet:
>> If the post is HTML and everyone can post HTML - then the formatting should be retained. (If not then that's a bug)
understood, looks like it's a bug.
It also arises in this situation - a member posts using the setting [without using UBBCode/HTML], to show a newbie how to use ubb -- then edits the post to correct a typo. The post reverts to the default setting [using UBBCode], and the newbie is none the wiser. The member needs to repost afresh to correct this, so that the newbie can see the ubb code and how to use it.
>> posted by Twisty:
>> If you still need more help, just let me know and I'll help you edit the script in private (on my own time), and then we can test the changes.
>> Personally, I would go through with it because it must be incredibly annoying the way it behaves now
mate, I agree. I just hope it comes back in the next revision by infopop (I see it was aok in 6.3 but not 6.5). Thank you so much for your help, and thank you for the kind offer of your personal time but, as all php files are in their virgin as-delivered-state, I'll pass and wait for the next revision. In the interim, I'll take the blue lines out!
Josh,
my post in the
Friday Test thread was made using the setting [without UBBCode/HTML] but failed, as the ubb code "took". I wanted to make that post using [without] and edit it, to see if the original settings were retained after an edit.
