[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33102: Shortcodes with Quoted Attributes Break Inside of Quoted HTML Attributes

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#33102: Shortcodes with Quoted Attributes Break Inside of Quoted HTML Attributes
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 Reporter:  cgrymala      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Shortcodes    |     Version:  4.2.3
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close         |     Focuses:
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Comment (by georgestephanis):

 Replying to [comment:32 miqrogroove]:
 > We need to encourage everyone to write better plugin code rather than
 mislead them about the validity of this ticket.

 Whether you like it or not, this is the status quo, and until the point
 release it was in significant enough usage to cause this many issues.

 We care about supporting backward compatibility when possible.  As Core
 contributors, we shoulder the burden of that technical debt to make the
 users and developers lives easier.

 You've made your position very clear, however I fear that how you're
 saying it is coming off unkind and unwelcoming to folks whose sites and
 clients sites have been negatively affected by the change.  I'm not saying
 that the change itself was bad -- it was necessary -- but to recommend
 shutting down a ticket aimed at supporting backward compatibility feels
 problematic at best.

 We need to welcome contributors, and if they can devise a way to bring
 back support for a prior use case that is both secure and performant, then
 I feel strongly that needs to be encouraged.

 Alternately, if they give it their best effort and fail to come up with a
 sufficient solution, they will then come to the conclusion that the Core
 teams working on the fix for 4.2.3 had in fact come to the best solution,
 and that they may be more willing to give Core the benefit of the doubt
 otherwise.

 Long story short, let them try.  If they ace it, we all win.  If they
 don't, they'll understand that maybe the problem was a lot harder than
 they thought.

 Seems like a win-win to me.

 Also, I'm not going to play a tag-untag-retag game with you.  It's just
 petty.  Please remove the `close` tag that you re-added yourself.

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