I'll second the proposal with some reservations. First, a good definition of "unsafe tags" needs to be nailed down. I'm not sure what's allowed right now since I haven't submitted a broken post recently, but in theory even a stray </table> tag can cause trouble (anybody ever seen roblimo italicize an entire conversation?). Some of you might remember the CERT advisory on this very issue a few months ago. The range is extreme: obviously links to applets and ActiveX controls are dangerous, but what about malformed tables? Image tags linking to 800KB graphics? Forms?
Also, "higher levels" should be a pretty conservative mark, I'd say around 3-4 at most. That keeps the AM trolls from doing damage without discouraging any newbies trying to post something fancy.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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