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Re: text area
Reply #6 - 01/07/06 at 18:28:28

First, thanks for member status "developer",
and for your fast replies to my questions.

About text area, and html code, I see now - you are right.

Only text area still have some advantages, (my private opinion)
Predefined size,
Speed,
Users cannot put links and images in it.
Users do not have to know html,
And maybe the most important of all, they cannot make site ugly and slow
(for example: like some sellers do on ebay)

Maybe it is not that bad idea to have this option too?

For security, I see... will use patch, thanks.

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Dieter Werner Administrator Offline Dipl. Paranoiac ® Posts: 1162 Germany Gender:	Re: text area Reply #7 - 01/07/06 at 18:47:22 Sorry, but it seems as if you are in a wrong idea about the HTML tag <textarea> This HTML tag is just an INPUT function and it shouldn't be used to display something to the user (except: the EDIT function that is only accessible for the seller). Do you agree?
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Re: text area
Reply #8 - 01/07/06 at 19:56:03

You are more expericend in this metter,
if you say taht <textarea> is for INPUT only,
not for OUTPUT, I see now reason not to belive you.

I forgot to mention it,
textarea can be disabled, and used for output.

maybe you will disagree, or agree...
textarea is not really important, approach to solution is.

Anyway, it was just an idea to simplyfy things, make auction more user friendly,
and prevent users to ruin your site,(malicious or accidentaly)
and thay are capable to do it, I am sure that you better now that.

textarea is not really important, approach to solution is.

Theoretically, the best solution is not to filter what users input,
and to think about all combinations they can use. painfull job.
By allowing only predefined input, and disallowing everything else,
programer have significantly less to work on that part of code, and suprises & ommisions are almost eliminated.

Do you agree?

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