markup rant

[egypturnash]

I hate BBcode. It is just enough like HTML to trip me up - and to make cutting-and-pasting something originally marked up in HTML a total pain. I just discovered, for instance, that FA's BBcode parser barfs if you have quotes around a URL.

If you're building something and don't want to go through the pain of parsing and sanitizing HTML to defend against malicious users, then use a simplified markup language like Textile or Markdown, with syntax that is clearly Not HTML, instead of that ugly monstrosity.

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[relee.livejournal.com]

Hi~!