Why are we forced to allow HTML in PMs.

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Googi

In the past we could disable HTML in PMs so that those of us who don't care about how you want to mass out some image you made in paint didn't have to load it. How come we can't do this anymore?

The change to using the GUI controls for the PM window means that Internet Explorer is no longer being called upon to render HTML, but instead is being selectively rendered internally by the engine. It's quite a lot safer and things like JavaScript won't work, and only a limited number of tags will render.

I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to add a HTML filtering function though, if it's preferred not to see any HTML at all.