2 WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
3 HTML Purifier: A Pretty Good Fit for TinyMCE and FCKeditor
5 Javascript-based WYSIWYG editors, simply stated, are quite amazing. But I've
6 always been wary about using them due to security issues: they handle the
7 client-side magic, but once you've been served a piping hot load of unfiltered
8 HTML, what should be done then? In some situations, you can serve it uncleaned,
9 since you only offer these facilities to trusted(?) authors.
11 Unfortunantely, for blog comments and anonymous input, BBCode, Textile and
12 other markup languages still reign supreme. Put simply: filtering HTML is
13 hard work, and these WYSIWYG authors don't offer anything to alleviate that
14 trouble. Therein lies the solution:
16 HTML Purifier is perfect for filtering pure-HTML input from WYSIWYG editors.