Posted by Chris Shiflett on 07/10/05 04:31

Greg Donald wrote:
> > [i]This text will be in italics.[/i]
> > [b]This text will be in bold.[/b]
> > [url=http://php.net]This will be a URL that points to php.net.[/url]
>
> While I do not disagree with the information content of your post, I
> do think this sort of thing is pretty silly.
>
> If you're gonna allow the <i> tag then just allow it. There's no
> point in allowing something else just to spend CPU cycles converting
> it to what you could have allowed in the first place.

I completely agree. I think you'll find that, when pressed, no one can
really provide a good reason to use BBCode. I often see security cited
as a reason, but it makes no sense.

Chris

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