I want to implement markdown to my forums.
I research many possible approaches how I would do that and this is what I thought:
A simple approach would involve pagedown on client side and php-markdown on the server.
My approach is to save pure markdown to database and when displaying convert to HTML (with pagedown). Since I already have security layer for my server side (HTML elements whitelist) and all the necessary staff I don't see anything to lose here.
What I win in this case? well I have to modify pagedown to use custom buttons and patterns. That would be hard for me to maintain both php and JavaScript.
My question is: is this good aproach? To break this question:
- Is there any serious overhead on client side loading about 30 posts and converting it to HTML (performance)
- With the Idea that I check elements whitelist, is there any security issue I need to know about? (Security)