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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1668461769-1129200855=:651 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Peter da Silva wrote: > > This way may lie madness, but what about an upload filter that=20 > > auto-escapes angle brackets for anything wrapped in <pre> or <code>=20 > > tags? Surely some of the blogging toolkits have such abilities, as=20 > > plugins if not as core functionality, no? >=20 > What if you've got </pre> or </code> as part of the code you're=20 > entering? Yo may be writing about HTML. I *did* say "this way may life madness"... :-) Yes, there are always going to be degenerate cases like that, and no, I=20 don't think there's any great way around that with a simple markup. Your=20 suggestion has exactly the same drawback that mine does.=20 If you're going to use anything other than HTML, it might as well be=20 some variant of Wiki syntax, if only because they're all intended to be=20 simple and there's starting to be a lot of people that are already=20 comfortable with editing some dialect of WikiText.=20 =20 It'll still be prone to the problem you cite here, but at least it gets=20 a bit less likely, and adds benefits of simplicity & familiarity... --=20 Chris Devers =C3=91=EBU=9B=E06Q=B1Ruj --0-1668461769-1129200855=:651--There's stuff above here
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