Hi Patrick, Thank you for the suggestions. I have heard of Markdown, of course, but I'm not as familiar with it as Textile. I hadn't heard of the RDiscount gem so I will definitely check it out.
I'm curious, do you think that non-IT-types would be open-minded enough to learn Markdown. My primary competitor does allow HTML via a rich text editor (at least some - links, image tags, lists, etc) and I'm just not sure if people would move to me particularly if they have to learn something new. On the other hand, I want to keep an open mind... Thanks again, Ken On Nov 3, 6:11 pm, Patrick Crowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's what I recommend, Ken. > > - Markdown for comment formatting (it has a very simple syntax that's > easy to learn) > - The new RDiscount gem for converting Markdown into HTML > - Look at a whitelist plugin for limiting HTML to certain tags > > In other words, people could write blog entries and comments using > Markdown. The text is saved in Markdown, and then converted to HTML > in your views. > > By using a whitelist, you could then limit the final HTML output to > only a few tags (strong, em, links, etc.). Anything else will be > sanitized and/or removed. > > -- Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
