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authorJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2008-12-26 15:27:49 -0500
committerJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2008-12-26 15:27:49 -0500
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deprecate embed plugin too
I see that this plugin's lists of safe content are already well out of date, and htmlscrubber_skip offers a non whitelist based approach, so let's deprecate this plugin for 3.0.
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@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ In the examples below, the parts of the html that you can change are denoted
with "XXX"; everything else must appear exactly as shown to be accepted by the
plugin.
+*This plugin is deprecated.* Rather than relying on these complex lists
+of safe content, which constantly fall out of date, you're recommended to
+configure the [[htmlscrubber]] to not scrub some pages, which only trusted
+users can edit. Then you can embed anything from anywhere on those pages.
+See [[tips/embedding_content]] for details and examples.
+This plugin's lists of safe embedded content will not be maintained, and
+the plugin will be removed in a future release.
+
## google maps
Use html like this to embed a map: