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Yes, that is also a possibility. However, this would not help for posts containing snippets in several languages (e.g. SQL + PHP, or JavaScript + Perl, or C + Lisp). It also seems to be a much more involved code change than adding to the HTML whitelist.
– Svante
Commented Mar 10, 2010 at 21:11
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@Svante - it would still help those if the list of possibles is filtered down to those tags. Then for example you might have a php and sql question, but at least it's not gonna try to color the sql like C.
– Joel Coehoorn
Commented May 18, 2010 at 16:17

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