I was pretty much in the same position as you with
Firedoglake and
Crooks & Liars, even though they use Wordpress (despite
my efforts to
get them to move to Drupal LOL), TinyMCE is still used for
the post
editor and they both have a lot of contributors that love to
directly
paste from Word into TinyMCE. What I ended up doing was
using
HTMLPurifier as an extra level of filtering on form submits.
It has
worked out great for filtering out all the extra crap Word
puts in. The
only problem people have had was using indent in Word as a
blockquote
and losing that (since it does an actual indent with
paragraph styling).
The best part has been that I haven't had a single problem
with a tag
left unclosed since using that. Before making this move, I
was getting
an email every day or so where someone pasted something in
and it broke
the layout. In 3 months of using this system, I haven't had
any. The
only few emails I got was from people pasting into the RTE
(usually from
Gmail) and losing the text, simply because it was included
inside some
javascript that GMail uses. That does force them to use the
"paste as
text" or "paste as word" button more.
We don't use RTE for comment posting, but it is used for the
comment
moderators when editing comments. The comments are still ran
through
HTMLPurifier when submitted and has ran great.
The only other problem I ran into was with embeds being
pasted directly
into the post. To fix that I ended up grepping out all embed
code and
replacing it with a token prior to running through purifier.
Afterwards
the tokens are replaced back with the actual embed code.
This opened up
another feature I introduced of creating
whitelists/blacklists for the
embeds. I can decide which domains to allow/disallow
embedding from and
check them before reinserting the embed code into the post.
Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.n
et http://www.hollyit.net
Skype:intoxination Phone: 1-513-252-2919
Sean Robertson wrote:
> > Disallowing paste might actually help solve my
other issue. If they can't
> > paste from Word, then they can't paste some
document prepared for some other
> > media and have to think about typing something
more in the web idiom.
>
> My clients would kill me if I did that. The problem is
that in
> political campaigns, much of what's posted has to get
vetted by several
> people, and these people are all older types who seem
to have to see it
> in a word doc before it's real to them.
>
>
>
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earthlink.net> wrote:
> I was pretty much in the same position as you with
Firedoglake and
> Crooks & Liars, even though they use Wordpress
(despite my efforts
> to get them to move to Drupal LOL), TinyMCE is still
used for the
> post editor and they both have a lot of contributors
that love to
> directly paste from Word into TinyMCE. What I ended up
doing was
> using HTMLPurifier as an extra level of filtering on
form submits.
How would you compare HTMLPurifier with tidy?
--
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo