Why can't questions and comments support HTML like they used to?

I prefer HTML when writing comments, because it's a whole lot faster for me than to use some "proprietary" code.

This is a link to Google.com (Look at my edit. You'll see that I haven't put a link on "Google.com"). If you click "this", it won't do anything.

I can't use images through the <img src=""> method either.

I hope that this will be fixed, because I find it to be much more of a pain to try to use this "Markdown" language.

support html dropped

asked Feb 10 '11 at 06:00

catchatyou
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edited Feb 10 '11 at 06:02

Test

(Feb 10 '11 at 07:06) Madison Tries

<a href="http://google.com">Test</a>
Test

<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_17as-hI-b_Q/TO2xlGPqokI/AAAAAAAAALY/GZ81FeOeq10/home-compass-sm.png">

Spot where image should be.

None of the basic tags are working. <br> still works, but not much else.

(Feb 10 '11 at 07:15) catchatyou

feels bad man

(Feb 10 '11 at 13:28) zman

Let's see if it's fixed yet.

<a href="http://google.com">Test</a>
Test

<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_17as-hI-b_Q/TO2xlGPqokI/AAAAAAAAALY/GZ81FeOeq10/home-compass-sm.png">

Place where image should be.

(Feb 11 '11 at 06:48) catchatyou

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You can't do a lot of them because they can lead to hacks. Not the simple tags but javascript can lead to hacks.

answered Feb 11 '11 at 06:49

Hugo
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I've never been able to get JavaScript working on this site. I've also never had a problem with JavaScript not working, because I don't have much of a purpose using it on this site. I just want the basic HTML elements back.

(Feb 11 '11 at 07:23) catchatyou

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