[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #1371: Allowing HTML in post titles

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#1371: Allowing HTML in post titles
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 Reporter:  MaThIbUs                  |        Owner:  MathiasBynens
     Type:  enhancement               |       Status:  closed       
 Priority:  lowest                    |    Milestone:               
Component:  Template                  |      Version:  2.9.2        
 Severity:  minor                     |   Resolution:  wontfix      
 Keywords:  dev-feedback 2nd-opinion  |  
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Changes (by ricfischer):

 * cc: ricfischer (added)
  * version:  2.3 => 2.9.2


Comment:

 I have two posts. One was about an ISP company denying their customers
 access to my sites. The second, about 3 months later, was about the same
 company finally allowing their customers access to my sites.

 Original post's title: Qwest Denies Their Customers

 New post's title: Qwest <strike>Denies</strike> Allows Their Customers

 Strike is the now-deprecated way of doing a strike-through. <del></del> is
 the replacement.

 I've had to edit the title because, while gone from WP for well over a
 year, updates to WP have forced Textile to not work and the Textile plugin
 wasn't updated. Apparently, Textile must've allowed the <strike></strike>
 to work.

 I see no reason why a philosophy of accepting all input (within reason
 depending on the field) but scrubbing the output cannot apply. Generating
 RSS? Scrub the output to make sure it complies with RSS. Creating a menu
 of posts from post titles? Scrub it appropriately. Since <del> and <ins>
 are non-block elements, I believe they should be allowed where other XHTML
 is allowed.

 Another example is citing the name of a book or movie or some such and
 allowing the user to recognize it is the name of a book or movie. Do we
 just stick with old-school style and use single quotes or can we move
 forward at all with the greater flexibility computers and the web allow?

 Leaving this closed. I welcome a discussion why minor style attribute
 elements cannot be applied in headlines, excluding <strong>, of course.

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