Parsing iFrames in Latest Posts

[a_5mith]

Was this a decision based on security or size issues? I've noticed that iFrames from embedded media don't display on either Recent Posts, or in the last x posts of a category on the homepage.

Is their a better was of handling this rather than just using blank spaces...?

[julian]

@a_5mith I believe for security purposes, we only allow a strict set of HTML tags in the post previews. I don't quite recall the reason behind it, as they used to be parsed like posts.

Perhaps @baris can shed some light?

[baris]

Mostly because allowing everything looked like crap. You can change the tags that are stripped in utils.js the array is called utils.stripTags https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/utils.js#L250

I think we didn't have responsive video embedding at the beginning so all the youtube videos etc would just go out of the recent posts or get clipped etc. Maybe we can add it back since those are working now?

[a_5mith]

@baris Yeah I think most of the plugins are relatively responsive now by default, either that, or just parse the original link instead.