Following up to this subthread of another PMD, some people (myself included) feel that filtering HTML of homenodes should be on by default. This is a fairly major change, so its visibility should be maximized before it happens.
As ysth said, this change "would need to be well advertised. But there's no point in doing so until someone steps forward to do the work." Well, I've done the work (two patches, not yet applied), so now I'm doing the advertising.
Note well, ye monks: This change will immediately revert all users to having homenode HTML filtering on.
If you then decide you want to open up the filter to allow CSS, images, etc, then you can set the flag to allow this.
A new checkbox will appear in your User Settings, replacing the one which currently says "Filter HTML of monks' homenodes".
Update:
What gets filtered, you ask? The essential effect of this change is to invert the meaning of the "filter html" flag —
the one currently labeled "Filter HTML of monks' homenodes" in User Settings. Instead of checking the checkbox to turn on filtering, you'd check it to turn off filtering. Among other things, this means that Anonymous Monk will have filtering on instead of off, and new users will have filtering on by default. But technically, under the hood, the change is being implemented with a new flag, which will initially be unset for all monks. And unset means off. To see what HTML gets filtered, see the existing FAQ, Filter HTML of monks' homenodes.
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