No java category?

[bcc1234]

Why doesn't this board have a java-related category?
I see "Microsoft Related - .NET and ASP" and "Perl and PHP CGI Scripting", but no java.

Aren't there enough people who use java?

[Brett_Tabke]

Exactly. Java usage is fairly rare outside of the corporate world where sun and ms have the major share of os's. In the 3 years we've been here, I can't recall a single java question.

[Brett_Tabke]

Or did you mean, Java Script? A js forum has been considered. I'm a bit shy of that forum type since they often breed code postings. Those tend to cause problems for forums. Many forums, mailing lists, and usenet groups have all but banned code postings where they can.

[jeremy goodrich]

We have had a few jsp posts - but very, very few.

[bcc1234]

No, I didn't mean javascript.
But thanks, that answers my question.

[bcc1234]

Btw, if you want to prevent posted scripts from messing up board pages - display them encoded.
Something like %35%2D%3D%E7.... is not going to get executed by the browser even if it decodes to <script ...

You might want to consider creating another opion for posts, something like:
( )Do you want an email notification of replies?
....
( ) Do you want your post encoded?

That way you won't have to spend extra bandwidth for all posts, just when people really need it.

The editing part is going to be tricky, but you can just decode those posts.
Don't know if you can do that since I haven't seen the internals of the board.