Editing Encyclopedia:PHP script tech talk (section)

=== Fixing some parser bugs ===
:Especially the &lt;pre&gt; tags.

::I've replaced removeHTMLtags() with behavior more like the old usemod version; ie instead of forbidding a few tags, it allows only a small number. Thus, no &lt;<b></b>span&gt;, &lt;<b></b>object&gt; etc. However it still needs to be able to strip out unknown elements/parameters; I can still write <b style="color: blue; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer" onClick="alert('Not a link! Evil Javascript!')">naughty things like this</b>. {this is a 'link' that isn't a link, and runs some JavaScript code} (2002/02/04 20:48 PST) --[[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]

::Also, I commented out the line in subParseContents that makes &amp;<b></b>amp; followed by text that could be an entity into the entity. I suspect it was put in to fix pages that were getting over-escaped during editing, but that bug seems to be gone now and it just makes it hard to write the name of an entity. Ie, "&amp;amp;" should *not* appear as just an ampersand, but an ampersand followed by "amp;". --BV

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