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Your HTML example is exactly 1 character longer than your BBCode example.
BBCode only exists because people writing PHP web forum packages couldn't figure out how to properly sanitize HTML markup in user-submitted posts.
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Weight, Im confused. Our you saying its good, or it's bad that theirs a big difference between Coak and Pesci? Or do ewe thing they're's no diffrent??
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BBCode is also easier to type, as you don't need to keep using the Shift key.
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Whaddya mean your databases don't support DDL within transactions, including rollback? What sort of rubbish are they? (Don't tell me, Oracle…)
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Yep, in my case TRWTF is Oracle.
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God damn it.
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Absolutely you can still get the stuff.
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FTFY. Right, @Arantor?
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Why???
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Why? I'll try anything once.
Within reason, of course :smile:
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So what the hell is Discourse's reason? No PHP present and it mangles it good and proper - worse than any of the PHP forum software, and I've seen a fair few of them.
For that matter, WordPress uses bbcode. It calls it shortcode, but it's the same basic thing - something that is a form of metamarkup that is utterly safe when rendered without parsing because it cannot be dangerous because it's not HTML.
Consider the case of the quote bbc. This is a great example of how bbcode is a good thing, because there's no HTML markup that would convey the same semantic meaning as the quote bbc.
Oh, and bbcode was introduced in 1998 with Ultimate Bulletin Board which was built in Perl. You want to level the incompetence stick around, you need to wave it under the Perlmongers' noses too.
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@Arantor! It's good to hear from you! How's it going?
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Yeah, you need to use the Alt Gr key a lot instead.
Filed under: QWERTZ-world problems
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It's been... interesting. How's everyone doing here?
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welcome back @arantor!
i've missed you!
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I actually kind of like it, occasionally. But I drank Jolt when it was a thing.
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I'm willing to do that.
Also, WB.
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Thanks :)
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So what you're saying is that, really, you're just a troll for teh lulz?
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No, I meant spread blame to Pearl[1] users.
[1] yes, of course.
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Nobody uses Perl any more, do they?
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You'd be surprised.
They did it first, it's all their fault except for when it's actually a good idea to use it.
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Did you miss the posts mentioning muscle memory?
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Probably 😸
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Regex mania.
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Like other forum systems never parsed bbcode with regex before, or sanitised HTML with regex before... regex is a symptom not root cause here, I feel...
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Probably true. Look at what's been going on with the tagging plugin development over on meta.d and @PJH's test server.
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I've heard rumours. I r scared about seeing Jeff's idea of Codethulhu at this point in time. :stuck_out_tongue:
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Jeff is a StackExchange founder, and he doesn't seem to have read the single most popular and well known question on StackOverflow.
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You seem surprised.
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I fail to see how this question is relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster-than-an-unsorted-array
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Question with the highest views on SO is
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered
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Ah, I sorted by upvotes. :smiley:
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I think @sam should have posted the following instead:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags?lq=1
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Oh yes, that's the one I'm sure the other Jeff should have read. But it wasn't in the list of 'most viewed' or 'most commented' and it didn't occur to me that it was the one that should be referenced. But it's completely true.
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That is the one I meant. Now I'm unsure if it was ever the most popular as I thought, or if it has been overtaken since.
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Odd, I thought it did. And yeah, I was too lazy to put both asterisks on either side in that comment.
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Guess which shitty website is completely broken on Firefox for Android. Yup, stackoverflow.
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In what way? I can read stuff in a format meant for mobile, so that's nice...
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reminds me of a story of a user who tried to "clean up" his computer by moving everything in the Root directory into a folder...this, of course, broke Windows, since it couldn't find essential files anymore!