Are these bugs? [color] is always yellow and "send update" tries to send HTML email
 

<font color="DarkOrchid">This is supposed to be Dark Orchid.</font>

And when you use the "Send Update" button to email users who installed your hack, it runs the message through html_special_chars() even though it's sent as plain text, which means my recipients got email with lots of &quot;s.

If these aren't bugs, is there any particular reason for them?

The first is to stop people using all colors of the rainbow to atract attention. The second i wouldn't know, never noticed this myself.

I noticed that the & sign gets transformed to &amp; in the emails.

The [color] thing was because of people using yellow and it causing a pain in the ass in the green styles (back when dark blue was the default).

Well, it'd be nice to not have the entire pallette show up if we can only use yellow.

The second one is kind of a serious bug, as it's impossible to mention any sort of code or HTML in an update.

Xenon will have to look at the code for the send update problem.

Then we should have a [highlight] code to prevent this instead of destroying colour all together..... it's a pain in the arse when you actually need to use colours. (especially when using the wysig editor)

ther is a highlight tag already, but it wasn't used, just the color tag was used, so i just replaced the color parsing with the highlight parsing :p

@Send update bug: oh, have to take a look at it, when i'm back at home