789252 - dev.m.o does not mark up hyperlinks

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, enhancement)

Description

[Jeff Hammel]

When entering a hyperlink on a page, e.g.

"""http://mysite.com/a/path""" 

this does not appear as a link on dev.m.o.  IMHO, it should.  This should be the equivalent to

"""<a href="http://mysite.com/a/path">http://mysite.com/a/path</a>"""

While often you will want the link href and the contents to be the same, I often want the form described above to explicitly alert the reader of the URL of the linked site.  E.g.

"""
Talos's home page lives at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos . Please see that page for more details.
"""

communicates: "this is where Talos' homepage lives:  on wiki.m.o"  Whereas

"""
Please see <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos">Talos's home page</a> for more details.
"""

does not inform a page viewer very well that they will be transfered to wiki.m.o for this information.

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I disagree, personally. Usually if we've typed out a URL, we don't want it hyperlinked. Links should always be text with an underlying link, rather than a clickable URL.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Thanks for the proposal, Jeff. I do agree with Sheppy, there are a few side cases where we don't want this. 

But the fact that you took the time to propose it is much appreciated, don't hesitate to submit bugs in the future!