New Message: Rendering a message to HTML

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Address: http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$11703

By: Oliver Wrede (owrede at khm.de)

A feature I like to see is Manila recognizing a pre-rendered HTML string for a message bodytext. Manila could store the rendered result in the message table (e.g. in a value named "renderedhtml").

Manila then could first take that string for the bodytext. With this enhancement one could implement custom ASCII-2-HTML renderers that don't calculate the HTML fo each HTTP request (like ShortHand Plugin [1] seems to do).

Examples for custom ASCII-renderers:

ShortHand [2] (see No-Tags-Markup [3])

Textile [4]

Structured Text [5]

HTML Markup 3.0 [6]

Oliver

[1] http://shorthand.weblogger.com/
[2] http://shorthand.weblogger.com/
[3] http://www.prefab.com/ssl/notagsmarkup.html
[4] http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/
[5] http://www.zope.org/Members/millejoh/structuredText
[6] http://www.printerport.com/klephacks/markup.html

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