Adding a "Safe" option?

[Jason Clark]

On Apr 27, 2004, at 4:22 AM, Lou Quillio wrote:

> But does it really make sense?  Scrubbing *after* Markdown is cleaner, 
> easier, consistent with the user experience you want, and contends 
> directly with the goal of stripping unsafe tags.  This might be a case 
> where the solution isn't a hack, but a concise description of the 
> rules ("Images and script will be stripped").  Plus you've got 
> mandatory preview.

At first, I thought so too.  It would be easier to scrub the Markdown 
*output*, but I have an ulterior motive which I neglected to mention... 
my site is xhtml1.1 strict, and I do not want a comment to be able to 
make a page invalid.  Markdown is garanteed to output valid xhtml, but 
users aren't.  I *could* validate the comment during the preview, and 
make the user correct it (I've seen sites that do this), but I'd rather 
not need a built in validator, and I dislike making the user correct 
their markup.  By making literal html invalid in comments, I can avoid 
the problem.

> And these are only comments, anyhow.  [Just left one, btw.][1]
>
Thanks!

Jason Clark <jason at jclark.org>
http://jclark.org/weblog/