Thanks for the answers.
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a) I understand changing it to template system like textpattern or lucidcms has, would ‘break’ many WP users implementations if they love the ability to dig in pure PHP code there, but there is no way to get even minimal security with this in multiuser-environment – I mean my setup where many users have their systems running on one Apache, with the same uid:gid, without any chroot, and where they should have only web-access (no ftp) and because of it should never had ability to include own PHP code in templates
b) I do understand it is documented, but this is the same story as with RTE like TinyMCE or HTMLArea – I agree textile is better, but never for those ‘newbie-user-on-my-mind’, and it seems to be similar problem in WP , TXP and other systems communities – you have geek-user rather than newbie-end-user on your mind – this is my personal opinion of course, but I’m not so sure it should go this way
Cheers,
Oscar