[MGNLFORUM-198] Tags in forum emails break more than they help Created: 13/Sep/12  Updated: 12/Nov/18  Resolved: 12/Nov/18

Status: Closed
Project: Forum (closed)
Component/s: message rendering
Affects Version/s: 2.x
Fix Version/s: Ideas

Type: Improvement Priority: Neutral
Reporter: Antti Hietala Assignee: Christoph Meier
Resolution: Obsolete Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Attachments: File example1-url.eml     File example2-img.eml     File example3-b.eml    
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relates to MGNLFORUM-129 Replace BBCode by Wiki markup, Markdo... Closed
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 Description   

Strip tags that don't add value when a forum post is converted into a plain text email message:

  • [/url] tag breaks links when the email client interprets the closing tag as part of the link (example 1)
  • [/img] doesn't render the image inline, it just breaks the link (example 2)
  • [b], [u], [i] and [s] are not converted into bold, underline, italics and strikethrough so they merely add noise and make the text harder to read (example 3)

The [quote] and [code] tags arguably add some value as they tell the reader that the enclosed text should be consider a quote or code. You can leave those.

In general the tags seem to add little value unless the post is sent as HTML and the tags are converted to their HTML equivalents.



 Comments   
Comment by Magnolia International [ 12/Dec/13 ]

I think support Markdown syntax would help make both (html and source) more readable :

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