forkyfork

Helloooo Chicago!

I've always wondered - what is the purpose of UBB code? Honestly. I understand message boards don't like a lot of certain html codes, and that's where ubb code tries to come into play. But, why not just allow only SPECIFIC html codes instead of a whole new array of different code.

And it's not even that different. Bold text in html is < b > and in ubb code it's [ b ] (sans spaces). That isn't efficient, it's just frustrating. I'd understand if html code was more complicated, but it's not.

Unless I'm missing something here, I really don't see the advantage.

derekivey

Do you mean vBCode?

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forkyfork

Originally Posted by derekivey

Do you mean vBCode?

Is that what they call it? Back in my day *shakes cane* they called it ubb code!

Anyway.. whatever uses the []'s ;)

Grentz

vBcode is the name used for the code on vbulletin sites

Rudism

From a programming perspective, it's much easier to strip out all HTML with a single regular expression, and then parse your own non-html code than it would be to selectively strip out HTML code.

So I suspect it's done for simplicity's sake on the coding side of things, not only because the programmers are lazy, but also because simpler code = less chance of possible security holes (in this case the danger would be tricking the selective HTML stripper into allowing cross-site scripting attacks).

derekivey

In phpBB it's called BBCode lol. You probably just got it mixed up with the different forums. It's basically just html only it uses the braces([]) instead. With vBulletin you can make ur own vBcodes based on html tags.

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