/prog/ - Let speak frankly about BBCode

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 1:16

Drop the meme for a moment. Do you really like BBCode? Outside of /prog/, the dislike for BBCode is nearly universal. Especially among web programmers.

It's too much like HTML without actually being HTML, they argue. "Why don't you just use HTML tags?"

Even amongst /prog/riders, some would prefer Sexpcode instead of BBCode.

Maybe /prog/ is two-faced. You say BBCode rules in /prog/, but outside of /prog/ you might say it sucks. Is world4ch's BBCode different enough to warrant not being grouped together with the BBCode of your average forums?

What are your thoughts?

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 1:21

We have a thread about this already
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1295671004

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 1:25

>>2
Nothing in that thread discussing what I posit here.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 1:42

I like bbcode because it doesn't pretend to be stripped down or otherwise bastardized HTML. It may have been inspired by HTML, but it doesn't attempt to be like HTML.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 2:01

a tutorial would be nice
‷faggot‴
_{_{_{and no, _{don't give a fuck} about sexp}}}

^{^{oh predictable}}

yes [b][i][sup]b[s]c[/s][/sup][/i]code[/b] is great..

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 2:07

>>4
But BBCode is just HTML that uses square brackets instead of angle brackets.

Seriously speaking though, the only difference between BBCode and HTML is that BBCode is presentation and HTML is structure. HTML also used to be presentation, but they deprecated those tags in favor of CSS. Just look at all the BBCode tags, including those outside of /prog/... it tries to be olde HTML really hard.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 2:49

>>6
Stop swallowing propaganda, HTML is all presentation.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 3:22

>>7
How's it like in 1996.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 7:40

>>8
Go fuck you'reself.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 9:50

>>1
I prefer BBCode to markdown, WakabaMark and others.
I'd like SexpCode, but I hate using { as opening paren.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 10:06

if we were to use HTML instead of BBCode we'd have to do all
kinds of security measures to prevent javascript injection. this
is a lot harder to get right than implementing BBCode. of course
BBCode *could* use a straight <HTML> syntax, but what would be
the point?

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 10:49

BBCode gives you the option of making up your own tags. [spoiler] and [aa] would be <span class="spoiler"> and <span class="aa"> respectively. That's fucking stupid. You COULD make up your own HTML tags like <spoiler> and <aa>, but how the fuck is that any different from BBCode?

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 12:55

>>12
trollerface.jpg

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 12:55

also, noko

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 16:16

>>13
yourmomsafaggotbecausesheboreachildwhocantjusttypeanormalresponseandinsteadstypesitoutasafilename.swf

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-26 17:04

>>15
HOLOCAUST DENIER

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-27 22:00

/prog/ uses BBCode as though it was LaTeX

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-27 22:09

>>17
U MENA L^AΤ_ΕΧ

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-27 22:19

Hey /prog/
_{_{_{i'll tell you later but i want to write a program that turns bbcode into html}}}
why?
_{_{_{because textile is BSD and not dual license}}}

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-27 22:22

Fuck off, \begin{spoiler}``faggot''\end{spoiler}.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-28 0:37

BEE BEE COUWD

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-28 13:19

<-- check em dubz

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-28 14:30

>>22
Go back to /b/.

Name: Fuck off, !Ep8pui8Vw2 2011-01-28 14:37

>>23
Fuck off, ``faggot''.

Name: Back to /b/, !uaVa00FkCs 2011-01-28 15:22

>>35
Back to /b/, ``please''.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-28 15:45

>>25
you forgot yo'ure noko

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-28 15:48

>>26
Connecting people!

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-28 16:43

>>24
Stop defending shitposting.

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