Rich text formatting is now available on forum.dlang.org

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 2 April 2021 at 10:12:25 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 02.04.21 09:56, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 16:21:42 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote[...]
>> I have added a lint rule which warns on thus omitted HTML 
>> code, and offers to fix it (by adding escaping backslashes).
>
> Nice, but the warning doesn't show up for me. Probably not 
> deployed yet?

No, it's deployed. Note, though, that the check runs when you 
click "Send".

You can use the hidden old D group for testing:
https://forum.dlang.org/group/D

> Does the forum even support any HTML tags? If not, there's no 
> point in stripping them. But maybe that's a limitation of the 
> Markdown library you're using.

The implementation does provide a knob with two settings (strip 
all HTML or allow all HTML). I don't know if it's due to a 
technical limitation of that particular implementation. I suspect 
that the reason may be something along the lines of that for the 
purposes of the formal specification, there should be a simple 
and clear rule for when sequences of characters are interpreted 
as HTML vs. when they are not, or something like that.

> As far as I'm aware, the newsgroup and mailing list interfaces 
> are popular among forum regulars. If replying to them with 
> Markdown is difficult, that's going to be annoying for the web 
> users.
>
> Luckily, the difference Markdown makes will be benign most of 
> the time. It's not a big deal when "**emphasis**" or "`some 
> code`" get interpreted as Markdown.

Yes. But also, though formatting is indeed very useful for *some* 
posts, it will not significantly improve the majority of posts.