(this time in english again ;-) as i figured out some (or all?) of the macros are too complex for users. if anyone of you has some idea how they should look like or how to simplify them (some, all ...), please tell me!

the power of macros

Macros and Skins are neat for Designer and Layouter, but in my opinion a bit wrong placed for people who post stories and comments, since i don't see any smart way of how to restrict users to just use "safe" macros. And whatever restriction that is, can you be absolutely sure, that there are no security holes, that there is no way to produce infinite loops, and so on. On the other hand it is necessary to provide the admin of a weblog with that many macros in order to guarantee a maximum of customiation. So solutions could be: 1.) just stories and comments posted by the Admins are rendered as "skins", and otherwise just as plain text (i.e. the macros are not interpreted at all) 2.) we invent a new syntax for the functionality used by the posting users, which is basically link-creation and including images. e.g. link:url and image:name.

i would rather prefer the second option, but would like to hear other opinions on that. Of course the syntax of the second option is a whole complete topic on its own, which is also interesting to discuss about. but our experiences with iEdit might help here.