What about a WYSIWYG ? Thats how wordpress handles it. FCKEditor and TinyMCE are two popular Javascript based WYSIWYG editors.
--Dan On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Ryan Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming you're not using wordpress as your blogging engine: > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/screenshots/ > I'd say check out the library http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/ > . > > I've used the white list plugin > http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/white_list/ and added > table, th, tr, and td tags to it. > > Ryan > > > On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Ken Hudson wrote: > > Hi All, > I'm working on a new application that will need a blog. The basics for > creating a blog are well documented all over the web and are pretty easy and > straightforward. However, most of what you find is very simplistic - blog > entries and comments just consisting of simple text, for example. In my > application, I will need to allow blog posts to have at least some HTML > markup (e.g., links, unordered lists, and in particular images). The same > goes for blog comments. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about > doing this? RedCloth would appear to be one alternative but my users aren't > going to know Textile and there's no way I can expect them to learn it. I > need to balance my requirements with a healthy concern for cross site > scripting (XSS) and I'm unsure how to proceed. I'm very curious how sites > like http://www.rubyinside.com accomplish this. I would greatly > appreciate any advice! > > Thanks, Ken > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
