[geeklog-devel] State of the Na^Wproject

[Blaine Lang]

Dirk wrote:
> Actually, I've been thinking if it was a good idea to do the parsing for 
> links at display time.

I agree that we should store the links or autotags as their pseudocode tag 
as it will allow us to control the formatting and conversion as needed.
It also mean we can display the autotag or bbtag in it's [native] format 
when editing if we want.

I have the same issue with smilies - I should have left them as [bbcode].
There is a need here for a common API to handle how we add/edit/display or 
parse these tags.

Blaine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: [geeklog-devel] State of the Na^Wproject


Okay, I think I've fixed the issues with personal events (see CVS). Here
are a few remaining issues:

As mentioned in my other post, the regexp in COM_makeClickableLinks could
need some work.

Actually, I've been thinking if it was a good idea to do the parsing for
links at display time. We've seen that parsing for the "related" links in
stories used a lot of CPU power (hi to groklaw.net) - and now that that
has been resolved, we're doing the same thing again elsewhere.

The same applies to the autotags / autolinks.

For the clickable links in text posts, it would be possible to do the
parsing when they are saved (both comments and stories), although there
are one or two issues with that:

1) Should we undo the change when a plain-text story is edited later?
2) Comments don't store whether they had been posted in plain text or
HTML - that's done at display time by running yet another regexp over
them. So maybe it would make sense to convert them to "pseudo HTML" (i.e.
clickable links + nl2br) when saving them). But that would mean that old
comments would have to be converted.

The whole point of autolinks, however, is that they ARE dynamic, so I
guess the only way out there is to introduce an option to disable them.

Thoughts on this?


Vinny, how are things re: comments in plugins?

That's all I can think of at the moment (well, it's enough ...).

bye, Dirk

P.S. I'll be offline for the next couple of days (back Thursday).


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