Merged WYSIWYG editor for Kunena: How to allow HTML tags?

I don't see how pure html can do anything negative. It has zero scripting ability. afaik its when you add all the xhtml that things start to be able to happen

This discussion is resurrected every few months, gets a bit of a work-over about the risks of HTML (and there's no consensus of opinion there) and generally, whenever the mention of asking for money is concerned, the topic dies down. I can only advise people what I have written before:

I don't want to dampen people's hopes but I would like to say that K 2.0 is expected to greatly improve the way that message editing is implemented, not just in Kunena but in other Joomla extensions, too. The general plan is outlined in docs.kunena.org/index.php/Kunena:About#K_2.0

monkeyman wrote: I didn't see in all that "will greatly improve the way" and the whole doc a single word about "nice and simple post writing/editing". Guess, others don't see it either - this is why the question stays on.

The text used in the plan may not have said "nice and simple post writing/editing" but the strategic goal is an important one:

3. Separation of the BBcode into a self-contained library that can be easily extended and used in other Joomla extensions.

What we have to understand is that, up to now, the BBcode editor/parser has been a tightly-coupled function of Kunena. By separating this function and enabling a BBcode parser to exist independently of Kunena (and be usable in other Joomla extensions), this creates the possibility of using other editors with Kunena - possibly even WYSIWYG ones - but I'm not making any promises here because I'm not a developer and I'm not fully au fait with the details of K 2.0 at this time.

I've actually written several fully-functioning WYSIWYG editors over the last 15 years and they're not too difficult to do; most of the work is done with Javascript and turning your browser on its head (from read-only into read-write) but there are a few technical fiddles to ensure your WYSIWYG editor is cross-browser compatible and that the Javascript library does not conflict with (or is clobbered by) other Javascript libraries. And, of course, we know that's never going to happen, don't we? :whistle:

Another issue is how you handle storing and retrieving the forum messages (not to mention that your database if going to grow by an unquantifiable extra factor depending on how much people use this few feature) but those are small matters of detail that are outside the scope of this discussion.

I think thats a good answer... Give me the ability to use standard html bold, italic,tables, styling etc, without haveing to resort to [] statements.
allow me to c/p html articles and have kunena translate it into bbcode if it wish's but still display it as it would if it was pure html page.
allow me to include ANY video in my posts... kunena lists a LONG line of supported video formats which is fantastic, but most don't work.
allow me to insert mp3 easily....
let me see what it is its going to look like as I type...

do those things and I'll be a very happy camper. I could care less if its in perl, cobolt, bbcode, or mike magic voodoo.. what I care about is ease of use. There are bbcode wysiwig editors so.......................

Main reason why Kunena doesn't support HTML is because of we just don't have time to do everything at once. Kunena 2.0 has designed so that it's easy to add HTML/WYSIWYG support, but I would still need a week or two to implement it. And time is the number one luxury which I'm mostly lacking (partly because of I need to earn some money, too).

There's a lot that cannot be done with HTML that can be done with BBCode. And there are things that cannot be done with BBCode, but are easy with HTML. It's just matter of taste.

The main reason why we are not implementing this now is that even without adding any feature to Kunena 2.0, it will take some time to get it stable. Adding new features would mean yet more waiting.