In this episode of Commit History, we’ll review a small pull request that extends the sanitization of HTML markup in incoming Mastodon messages, while Mastodon continues to explore expanding it’s capabilities around text formatting in posts.
From the Mastodon founder/CEO/lead developer, regarding this commit:
This PR is just one part of item MAS-86 on our public roadmap [1] "Markdown formatting for posts" which is meant to enable users to use code spans/blocks and bold and italic text as championed by the Elk third-party app [2].
I believe "rich text" in the PR title is a little not nuanced enough because like before I'm of the position that Mastodon is the wrong medium for long-form articles and the various block-level formatting structures that come with it, but allowing users to use bold text without resorting to mathematical Unicode characters is a win for accessibility.1
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