[STORY] As a host, I want a basic WYSIWYG/markdown editor for text blocks, allowing me to edit content more conventiently and avoiding the need for HTML knowledge
[EPIC] Extend Show Management Area and improve ... (#149 - closed)
Parent:Currently all text in dashboard is gathered using a plain text field. These text-areas also allow all kind of HTML tags to be submitted.
The downsides of this approach are:
- Potentially malicious code can be added to textual information (solving this would also mean securing the relevant API endpoints at Steering)
- Inconsistent formatting on data provided by users
- Hard to use for technically inexperienced users
- Potential performance reduction for websites, since some data needs to be interpreted and rendered client-site (e.g. URLs, carriage returns)
That's why we would like to introduce a basic WYSIWYG editor.
This editor should also provide the ability to limit the types of HTML tags available. Based on a radio stations global settings it should be configurable which tags are allowed.
Proposal
No formatting menu bar is required. Markdown compatible notations are converted and rendered as HTML on-the-fly. As a result steering only stores the HTML version.
In this first iteration there is no custom configuration required. We only need support for these markdown formatting types:
- plain URLs should convert to anchor tags
- bold
- italic
- bullet points
- ordered lists
- paragraphs and/or line-breaks
Edited by David Trattnig