Implemented initial Markdown support

h/js/lib/Markdown.Sanitizer.js

+(function () {
+    var output, Converter;
+    if (typeof exports === "object" && typeof require === "function") { // we're in a CommonJS (e.g. Node.js) module
+        output = exports;
+        Converter = require("./Markdown.Converter").Converter;
+    } else {
+        output = window.Markdown;
+        Converter = output.Converter;
+    }
+        
+    output.getSanitizingConverter = function () {
+        var converter = new Converter();
+        converter.hooks.chain("postConversion", sanitizeHtml);
+        converter.hooks.chain("postConversion", balanceTags);
+        return converter;
+    }
+
+    function sanitizeHtml(html) {
+        return html.replace(/<[^>]*>?/gi, sanitizeTag);
+    }
+
+    // (tags that can be opened/closed) | (tags that stand alone)
+    var basic_tag_whitelist = /^(<\/?(b|blockquote|code|del|dd|dl|dt|em|h1|h2|h3|i|kbd|li|ol|p|pre|s|sup|sub|strong|strike|ul)>|<(br|hr)\s?\/?>)$/i;
+    // <a href="url..." optional title>|</a>
+    var a_white = /^(<a\shref="((https?|ftp):\/\/|\/)[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;\(\)]+"(\stitle="[^"<>]+")?\s?>|<\/a>)$/i;
+
+    // <img src="url..." optional width  optional height  optional alt  optional title
+    var img_white = /^(<img\ssrc="(https?:\/\/|\/)[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;\(\)]+"(\swidth="\d{1,3}")?(\sheight="\d{1,3}")?(\salt="[^"<>]*")?(\stitle="[^"<>]*")?\s?\/?>)$/i;
+
+    function sanitizeTag(tag) {
+        if (tag.match(basic_tag_whitelist) || tag.match(a_white) || tag.match(img_white))
+            return tag;
+        else
+            return "";
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// attempt to balance HTML tags in the html string
+    /// by removing any unmatched opening or closing tags
+    /// IMPORTANT: we *assume* HTML has *already* been 
+    /// sanitized and is safe/sane before balancing!
+    /// 
+    /// adapted from CODESNIPPET: A8591DBA-D1D3-11DE-947C-BA5556D89593
+    /// </summary>
+    function balanceTags(html) {
+
+        if (html == "")
+            return "";
+
+        var re = /<\/?\w+[^>]*(\s|$|>)/g;
+        // convert everything to lower case; this makes
+        // our case insensitive comparisons easier
+        var tags = html.toLowerCase().match(re);
+
+        // no HTML tags present? nothing to do; exit now
+        var tagcount = (tags || []).length;
+        if (tagcount == 0)
+            return html;
+
+        var tagname, tag;
+        var ignoredtags = "<p><img><br><li><hr>";
+        var match;
+        var tagpaired = [];
+        var tagremove = [];
+        var needsRemoval = false;
+
+        // loop through matched tags in forward order
+        for (var ctag = 0; ctag < tagcount; ctag++) {
+            tagname = tags[ctag].replace(/<\/?(\w+).*/, "$1");
+            // skip any already paired tags
+            // and skip tags in our ignore list; assume they're self-closed
+            if (tagpaired[ctag] || ignoredtags.search("<" + tagname + ">") > -1)
+                continue;
+
+            tag = tags[ctag];
+            match = -1;
+
+            if (!/^<\//.test(tag)) {
+                // this is an opening tag
+                // search forwards (next tags), look for closing tags
+                for (var ntag = ctag + 1; ntag < tagcount; ntag++) {
+                    if (!tagpaired[ntag] && tags[ntag] == "</" + tagname + ">") {
+                        match = ntag;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (match == -1)
+                needsRemoval = tagremove[ctag] = true; // mark for removal
+            else
+                tagpaired[match] = true; // mark paired
+        }
+
+        if (!needsRemoval)
+            return html;
+
+        // delete all orphaned tags from the string
+
+        var ctag = 0;
+        html = html.replace(re, function (match) {
+            var res = tagremove[ctag] ? "" : match;
+            ctag++;
+            return res;
+        });
+        return html;
+    }
+})();

h/js/src/hypothesis.coffee

@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ class Hypothesis extends Annotator
         getMaxBottom: {}
         scrollTop: {}
 
+    # Prepare a MarkDown renderer, and add some post-processing
+    # so that all created links have their target set to _blank
+    @renderer = Markdown.getSanitizingConverter()
+    @renderer.hooks.chain "postConversion", (text) ->
+        text.replace /<a href=/, "<a target=\"_blank\" href="
+
     super
 
     # Load plugins
@@ -73,8 +79,6 @@ class Hypothesis extends Annotator
       if not @plugins[name] and name of Annotator.Plugin
         this.addPlugin(name, opts)
 
-    this
-
   _initialize: =>
     # Set up interface elements
     this._setupHeatmap()
@@ -558,11 +562,7 @@ class Hypothesis extends Annotator
 
   renderAnnotation: (annotation) ->
     text = annotation.text
-    #Must do escaping manually, since we will need to disable Handlebar's autoamtic escaping,
-    # so that it leaves the inserted links intact
-    safe_text = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression(text)
-    rendered_text = safe_text.replace /(https?:\/\/[^\s]+)/g, (match) ->
-      "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"" + match + "\">" + match + "</a>"
+    rendered_text = @renderer.makeHtml(text)
     annotation.rendered_text = rendered_text