More news tweaks?

[dreadnaut]

I have another idea on the back of my mind, but I think I need feedback before I touch the relative code.

At the moment one can write anything in the news box. This is nice (images, videos!), although it can lead to serious trouble. I have already fixed the nasty kind, but accepting html and javascript is still a problem.

I'd like to filter more stuff then, but without cutting useful features. I was thinking about:

• filter all html stuff (I can either remove it silently or make it appear as inactive code)
  
• accept links and do smart things: e.g., if one sends a youtube link, the video gets embedded, same with images.
  
  Would that work? Is there anything else that would make sense?
  
  Maybe some text formatting such as *bold text* or ZCTxxx becoming links to the track page?

[zaqrack]

thanks for the added security!

Since the shoutbox has very limited use, disabling HTML would not be a real issue IMHO. Formatiing is not that necessary either.
auto-links to track pages is space technology

[Duplode]

I'd like to filter more stuff then, but without cutting useful features. I was thinking about:

• filter all html stuff (I can either remove it silently or make it appear as inactive code)
  
• accept links and do smart things: e.g., if one sends a youtube link, the video gets embedded, same with images.
  
  Would that work? Is there anything else that would make sense?
  
  Maybe some text formatting such as *bold text* or ZCTxxx becoming links to the track page?
  

Sounds perfect to me. On seeing this topic my gut reaction was "add a Markdown parser"; however, Zak is right in saying that formatting is inessential - little "smart things" like the ones you suggested are far more interesting.

[dreadnaut]

Space technology, here we go!    Things that are recognised in the shoutbox:

* stuff like www.something.abc and http/https links become clickable
* links to youtube videos (youtube.com or youtu.be) become tiny video players
* links to an image will show the image itself
* links to forum topics will have the topic title pulled from the database!
* ZCT<number> become links to the track results
* *something* and _something_ can be used to emphasize words

Other suggestions?

[Duplode]

* links to forum topics will have the topic title pulled from the database!

That is really cool!

[dreadnaut]

Aaaand... smileys! All those available in the forum       

[alanrotoi]

Nice work! Thanks!

[zaqrack]

Mr Awesome!!!! many thanks!

[CTG]

Mr Awesome!!!! many thanks!

That was a coming out, huh?

[Friker]

please do no add a feature "- something -" resulting in "somthing" (most hated thing in gtalk..) i also do not like *sth* but it is more tolerable than that dashed thing :-/

[dreadnaut]

I can probably remove *something* and leave only _something_, since bold does not actually work at that text size.

[dreadnaut]

I can probably remove *something* and leave only _something_, since bold does not actually work at that text size.

The above, and I added a list of the available shortcuts to the post news page.

[dreadnaut]

ZCTnnn track names now work in the admin news too. Also, fixed markdown not being markdowned in the archives.