vaadin/tori — Issue #44: Add support for multiple format choices
Author: wolfie
Created: 2011-11-26 23:09:05+00:00
State: open

We have the technical possibility to support per-post formatting. In practice, e.g. BBCode and Markdown can be rendered correctly in the same thread.

A user simply picks the formatting of their preference while authoring the message, and PostFormatter would react to it accordingly. In practice, this would probably be a user preference setting (which could be overridden on a per-post-basis)

**Thoughts:**

If Tori would be deployed substituting an existing forum (say, some would have an existing Liferay installation, and would use the existing database with that), this would break pluggability in the sense that if Tori would be removed, and the original forum would be restored, the non-natively formatted posts would look a bit off.

_Technically_ a converter could be implemented for this purpose, but we probably rather do something else, since that would be a lot of potentially fragile code to maintain.