222008 - New Feature: Browser should automagically identify mail addresses & provide link.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Shaffer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030311 Galeon/1.3.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030311 Galeon/1.3.3

When the Browser paser encounters a real-world geographical address, it would be
nice if it made that address text linkable to the users mapping website of
choice (maps.yahoo.com, mapquest.com, etc).  Possible identifiers for for a map
link are:  

     -a 'map' icon is inserted next to the text
     -becomes a link of a different color...
The idea here is to make it easier for the users to find real locations, with
out having to cut'n'paste the address to a new tab/window.

This should be an option that could be enabled/disabled based upon user preference.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

although I agree it can be nice, Mozilla has too many feature requests, let's
make this an extension project on mozdev.org instead.

Similar projects:
http://messageidfinder.mozdev.org/
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/linky.html

Propose to resolve WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Chris Shaffer]

Sounds alright to me.  After looking over the Linky src code, it looks like my
idea can be added to that (or, atleast adapted from that)...

If my input means anything, go ahead and resolve it as 'WONTFIX'.

Thanks

Comment 3

[Alexey Chernyak]

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