Re: wiki front page
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Aug 26, 2009
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Well, goodie, the site uses a language that cannot be made to generate nice looking pages exactly as desired.
Any style of Wiki markup, such as Creole, is not designed to be as powerful as HTML. At best, it is a subset of HTML capabilities. It is not expected that one can "generate nice looking pages exactly as desired" because that's not what wikis are about.
I can understand the security aspect of limiting what code an editor can use to trash the site,
Good. Allowing anyone to embed arbitary HTML is a dangerous thing to do, so therefore we are not allowing that. Please note that Creole does have capabilities to allow such but that has not been exercised in the particular wiki.
Also note that Creole does not know anything about HTML. All it does is located segments of text that need some 'markup' processing and calls a user-defined routine to apply whatever to that text.
but golly, if they wanted to trash the site, do you think they'd fight the Creole and bring it to your attention in the forum that it wouldn't allow that exact precise trashing scheme?
You seem to be implying that I (or we) suspect you of trying to trash the site. That is not the case. I know there may be other ways to trash a site but all we are doing by sanitizing the generated output of the wiki markup is remove one avenue of doing that. I do not pretend that this site is totally protected from malicious attacks.
