[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[Mythril Moth]

> There may be a compromise, though.  It would be fairly trivial to make
> a widget somewhere you could dump your html into and get that code out
> ... it's just sed.  Probably even on a web interface.  All other
> unsupported tags could be stripped out, and then there you go -- you
> get to write in html, and it still outputs into something everyone can
> read.

Doesn't even need to be that complicated. Just have the site's native tag 
system be BBCode. It'll mean the user has to global S&R their hypothetical 
pre-existing HTML tags to BB tags, but that's a relatively simple task.

On a related note: I know I keep pointing at FiMF.net as a reference for 
things, but that's only because the site does a LOT of things right:

On FiMF, there are three options for story views. You can view using the 
site's native interface, you can download stories in plain text format, and 
you can download stories in HTML format. The on-the-fly conversion code 
usually works very nicely, although it lacks a convention for converting 
formatting to text because it doesn't strip BBCode style tags down to 
old-style TXT equivalents. I don't see any reason this can't be done, 
however, for those who are plain-text-only sticklers.


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Mythril Moth
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