Holy mother of ideas

[TheDevil565]

Ed, man, this is gonna be a really tough coding job but I think it's possible. You're familiar with XML, right? Well if you're not, it allows one to make their own HTML tags. I think you should allow for a user to have their own customized UBB tags (call it XBB or something) and that will be really cool. If you need more clarification just say so.

 

[Ed Sullivan]

That would defeat the purpose of not allowing users to use HTML in the first place

 

[TheDevil565]

TAG GUARD

No, here's an example. I set one up that I'm going to call "ACTION". I set ACTION to be "|color="ff6000"||b|". So whenever in a post I type |action|, the script translates it into |color="ff6000"||b|, and whenever I type |/action|, it goes to |/b||/color|. Understand?

NOTE: To avoid viewing problems, the [ and ] were replaced by a |.

 

[Ed Sullivan]

if you did it that way, you'd literally output the color and b stuff - with the [ and ].

You'd have to use HTML, to convert <action> to <font color="#ff6000"><b> and </action> to </b></font>

Then of course, I could just write a little <blah> tag that brings up a popup.

So, no.
It's not gonna happen.
And it's entirely overkill.