WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

    HTML Purifier: A Pretty Good Fit for TinyMCE and FCKeditor

 

Javascript-based WYSIWYG editors, simply stated, are quite amazing.  But I've

always been wary about using them due to security issues: they handle the

client-side magic, but once you've been served a piping hot load of unfiltered

HTML, what should be done then?  In some situations, you can serve it uncleaned,

since you only offer these facilities to trusted(?) authors.

 

Unfortunantely, for blog comments and anonymous input, BBCode, Textile and

other markup languages still reign supreme.  Put simply: filtering HTML is

hard work, and these WYSIWYG authors don't offer anything to alleviate that

trouble.  Therein lies the solution:

 

HTML Purifier is perfect for filtering pure-HTML input from WYSIWYG editors.

 

Enough said.

 

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