Yea, unfortunately my target audience don't know textile and I don't
think I could push them into it...  It does seem like a good
alternative otherwise, though...

On Oct 31, 2:56 pm, Ryan Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, I see.. I've used RedCloth and textile-editor-helper for this. We  
> did use TinyMCE in the past and it was a pain.
>
> I've cleaned up the textile-editor-helper plugin and put the code up  
> on github:http://github.com/felttippin/textile-editor-helper/tree/master
>
> I've also heard good things about this 
> one:http://github.com/pelargir/textile_toolbar/tree/master
>
> Ryan
>
> On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Ken wrote:
>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Thanks for the response.  In this particular situation I don't think
> the syntaxhighlighter will help because nobody will be posting code
> snippets on this blog (it's part of an application that's not for
> developers).  I'm not familiar with the white list plugin so I'll
> check it out.
>
> Thanks, Ken
>
> On Oct 31, 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 libraryhttp://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
> > .
>
> > I've used the white list 
> > pluginhttp://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 
> > likehttp://www.rubyinside.com
> >   accomplish this.  I would greatly appreciate any advice!
>
> > Thanks, Ken
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