765462 - Getting a Link from a browser should be a Link, and not simple text.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[costhart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0a1
Build ID: 20120615042503

Steps to reproduce:

From Firefox, visit a webpage ( let's say www.mozilla.org ), click "File->Send Link" , or
From Safari, visit a webpage ( let's say www.mozilla.org ), click "File->Mail Link to This Page", or
From Chrome, visit a webpage ( let's say www.mozilla.org ), click "File->Email Page Location".


Actual results:

1. Opens Thunderbird
2. In the message box is the correct link, but it is simple text.


Expected results:

The link should be an actual link, that the user could click on.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to costhart from comment #0)
The only way I found to do this, is to configure Composition ➞ Preferences (Options) ➞ General ➞ Send options ➞ Add your domain in HTML domains. Then, the message will be in HTML. 

You can configure HTML sending by default, Thunderbird will send the message in HTML only if there are HTML attributes (like hyperlink, bold fonts, etc...) in the message.

See this thread: http://markmail.org/message/kbtfizgssjmqgx6i#query:+page:1+mid:3v2amcx3ltpmybo7+state:results

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Hashem Masoud from comment #1)
> (In reply to costhart from comment #0)
> The only way I found to do this, is to configure Composition ➞ Preferences
> (Options) ➞ General ➞ Send options ➞ Add your domain in HTML domains. Then,
> the message will be in HTML.

I think that's not applicable to this bug. It will only help to preserve a link which is already linkified, but it won't convert a text link into an html link.
However, TB will auto-convert plaintext links to html links when receiving messages.

> You can configure HTML sending by default, Thunderbird will send the message
> in HTML only if there are HTML attributes (like hyperlink, bold fonts,
> etc...) in the message.

Indeed, even links which are properly linkified in composition might lose the link quality upon sending, which I'd consider a bug (Bug 414299). We're currently working to improve that, but there's still much debate as the current algorithms are very complex and expectations about delivery format design differ.

> See this thread:
> http://markmail.org/message/kbtfizgssjmqgx6i#query:+page:1+mid:
> 3v2amcx3ltpmybo7+state:results

That's outdated now as we no longer ask by default, but the underlying problems are still there.