Allow some kind of text formating (HTML or BBCode)

I just read that html is not supported and I wanted to put this as a idea (as opposed to just a question)

I would definitely need some kind of text formatting is IDC is to be a replacement for Wordpress' comment system. Html, bbcode, I don't really care, as long as the capability is there.

Almost all blogging platforms include some way to format your text and missing that seems to be a step back.

Necessary tags would be "a" "blockquote" "i" "b" "em" "strong" "u" and possibly "s" but definitely the first two.