John

<p>This plugin enables you to highlight syntax using the PEAR Text_Highlighter class. Other syntax highlighters that use GeSHi have slower rendering speeds which will increase your page load time. However, this plugin gives you the speed and efficiency provided by the PEAR developers. You even have the option of enabling or disabling the line numbers as well as specifying your own style.</p>


Ion Snytax Highlighter

This plugin allows users to highlight code.

<p>Powerful, flexible, XHTML-compliant, server-side code highlighting, credits for everything<br />
but ‘making it a plugin’ go to <a href="http://jpipes.com/index.php?/archives/216-Syntax-Highlighting-and-Allowing-HTML-in-Comments.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Jay Pipes</a><br />
and <a href="http://geshi.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">GeSHi</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Highlight sources of any language</li>
<li>automatically, server-side (no javascripts)</li>
<li>XHTML-Compliant, <code><div></code>, <code><ul></code>, <code><span></code> with class-attributes and a css-file are used for styling    </li>
<li>optionally add a heading for every code-block</li>
<li>optionally specify line-number offset (BREAKS XHTML COMPLIANCE)</li>
<li>optionally don’t display line-numbers</li>
<li>set per-codeblock if the code is html_entity_encoded or not</li>
<li>only parses <code><pre></code>-tags with the <code>lang=</code>-attribute, thus does not interfere with any regular preformatted contents you might have</li>
<li>degrades beautifully through <code><pre></code>-tags (if you keep the sources clean, that is)</li>
<li>all settings through logical, valid arguments for the main container</li>
<li>comes with generic cross-browser CSS (tested: IE5.5+, FF, Safari, Opera)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Version History</h4>
<ul>
<li>1.3: Thanks to a tipp now the link-path to the stylesheets is correct, sorry for the inconvenience</li>
<li>1.2: Leading whitespace isn’t stripped anymore (indents as well as newlines), when there’s no title the title-div is not being generated anymore</li>
<li>1.1: Solved the issue with single-quotes being changed to typographical quotes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Known Issues</h4>
<p>While the plugin is basically XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant there’s just no way of getting the offset-based line-numbering to display without inadequate (ab)use of javascript and css hacks, so be warned that <em>IF you use the line-number offset, your documents will <strong>NOT</strong> validate</em> because of the forbidden <code>start=</code>-attribute for the <code><ol></code>!</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>More on the <a href="http://blog.kno.at/tools/highlight-source-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Highlight Source Pro Page</a></p>


Highlight Source Pro

Powerful, XHTML-compliant, server-side code highlighting for pretty much all languages

Ion Snytax Highlighter vs Highlight Source Pro