680352 - links without protocol in html <a href=...> are not 'clickable'

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[schizunio]

User Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; pl) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.50

Steps to reproduce:

If I receive an email with Content-Type: text/html, and it has for example: <a href="google.com">Google</a>


Actual results:

The link is displayed in the contents of email, its highlighted, but it can't be clicked (it's not opening, and the address is not showing in the status bar when the mouse is over it)


Expected results:

I think it should parse the message and insert default 'http://' protocol, if it's really needed. Especially, that when in plain text I insert 'google.com' it's parsed to a proper (clickable) link.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to schizunio from comment #0)

> I think it should parse the message and insert default 'http://' protocol,
> if it's really needed. Especially, that when in plain text I insert
> 'google.com' it's parsed to a proper (clickable) link.

Typing google.com in composition is *not* converted into html link.
Only www.google.com is converted into html link.

I doubt just adding http protocol for links without protocol in link location (URL) is feasible, especially when parsing messages for *reading* that have "broken"/incomplete links. Message reader must parse truthful representation of actual link text and link location that is in HTML source code of received msg.

If you want helpful feature for *composition*, then that's Bug 743029.