[kh99]

The only difference is that 'var' will run the value through htmlspecialchars(), which encodes html characters like '<' and '>' (as &lt; and &gt so that they will appear as '<' and '>' in the output. Otherwise they would act as html tags, so if someone were to put html tags in the thread title they could affect the look of your page.

I have to admit I don't know offhand how it's handled - maybe those characters aren't allowed at all in thread titles or something. But you could do a test by creating a thread with a title like '<b>Bold</b>' and then see if vb:raw looks different than vb:var.

Edit: I just went ahead and tried it. If you create a thread with title '<b>Bold</b>' and use vb:var you get &lt;b&gt;Bold&lt;/b&gt;, which means that htmlspecialchars is being applied twice. So you need to use vb:raw in this case, or you might end up with strange things like that.