Question

I assume BBCode was invented to get around the M$ security issue with HTML.

I find it nice to use the HTML editor in Thunderbird and get annoyed by usually non-technical folks who fire up word just to write a couple of sentences, generating 100k bytes minimally for these few words as well. I guess outlook doesn't have a text or HTML editor!

My question is what was the problem with security / HTML and why couldn't the HTML be sanitized?

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-- FrankBennett - 01 Aug 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

I think it's because people were embedding applets and using JavaScript, BBCode killed that possibility.

-- GrazianoMisuraca - 01 Aug 2007

Sorry. closing this after more than 30 days...

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Sep 2007