[rellect] Favicon For Links 3.0.1

[refael]

rellect submitted a new resource:

[rellect] Favicon For Links - Automatically adds a favicon to links.

This version compatible with xenforo 2.x. For the xenforo 1.x version click here.

What's a Favicon
A favicon is a graphic image (icon) associated with a particular website.
Browers display them as a visual reminder of the Web site identity in the address bar or in tabs.

What 'Favicon For Links' does?
This addon automatically adds favicons to links in several areas of your site...

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[shanew]

I only want to show Favicon in post content, not show in other parts ( as signature, conversation..) is that possible? and how?

 

[refael]

I only want to show Favicon in post content, not show in other parts ( as signature, conversation..) is that possible? and how?

Hi
Currently no. This may be added in the future.

 

[Triops]

A green question: does this addon somehow touch the requirements for GDPR?

What I could imagine: User X visits a forums thread with links to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter o.s.. The addon fetches the icons either from those sites directly or via a Google service. In both cases the addon "connects" a user to a foreign site, which could save and connect the "visit" of the linked websites to a profile they have already.

Is this nonsens or could this indeed touch privacy aspects?

In any case: Thank you so much for porting this nice addon for XF2, @rellect and @partycraft.

 

[refael]

A green question: does this addon somehow touch the requirements for GDPR?

What I could imagine: User X visits a forums thread with links to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter o.s.. The addon fetches the icons either from those sites directly or via a Google service. In both cases the addon "connects" a user to a foreign site, which could save and connect the "visit" of the linked websites to a profile they have already.

Is this nonsens or could this indeed touch privacy aspects?

In any case: Thank you so much for porting this nice addon for XF2, @rellect and @partycraft.

Unfortunately I don't have an answer as I don't fully understand GDPR.
But the end result is the same as posting an image that's hosted on another site.

 

[shanew]

Hi
Currently no. This may be added in the future.

Thanks for your info, I will wait for new release to use.
I am temporarily disabling it because icons show in signature for links look very messy.

 

[refael]

rellect updated [rellect] Favicon For Links with a new update entry:

v3.0.1

Small bug fixes:
- Prevent favicon from showing inside images
- Prevent favicon from showing inside empty links

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Chromaniac]

oh thanks for the image link update.
kind of bugged about '- Prevent favicon from showing inside empty links' thing as it used to come handy to see posts with empty links left by spammers or by mistake. any reason why anyone would want to have empty links and why you decided to fix this bug?

 

[refael]

oh thanks for the image link update.
kind of bugged about '- Prevent favicon from showing inside empty links' thing as it used to come handy to see posts with empty links left by spammers or by mistake. any reason why anyone would want to have empty links and why you decided to fix this bug?

Usually this happens by mistake or by copy-pasting. And since an empty link is not visible/clickable, I don't want to force it to show up.

About spam, I understand the idea but it's not very effective really. There are better ways to handle this automatically. (adding nofollow for example)

 

[deslocotoco]

Hello, first i want to thank you for this awesome addon.

But i have a problem.

I created a Custom Thread Field when creating a new thread, for my users to paste the link from the original article.

But when we post the thread, there is not favicon beside the link, just a 'blank' space. All the sites that i tested have a favicon.

I think is just some coding customization for solving the problem.

Can you help me?

 

[refael]

Hello, first i want to thank you for this awesome addon.

But i have a problem.

I created a Custom Thread Field when creating a new thread, for my users to paste the link from the original article.

But when we post the thread, there is not favicon beside the link, just a 'blank' space. All the sites that i tested have a favicon.

I think is just some coding customization for solving the problem.

Can you help me?

Hi
In order for this to work, the link element should have a css class 'link': <a href="https://google.com" class="link">example</a>

 

[deslocotoco]

Hi
In order for this to work, the link element should have a css class 'link': <a href="https://google.com" class="link">example</a>

Thanks for the reply, I'm sorry about the questions, but, I'm not really a coder, this is just a hobby that i really try to learn more every day.

Your solution worked very well, thank you very much.

I just used this on my HTML Value Display:

<a href="{$value}" class="link">{$value}</a>

 

[Nirjonadda]

@rellect Please can you add support Favicon icon re-size taken from URL text size?

 

[refael]

@rellect Please can you add support Favicon icon re-size taken from URL text size?

View attachment 184975

Hi, it can't be based on the font size because it will be pixelated. The favicon is only 16x16 pixels in size.

 

[Nirjonadda]

Do you have plan adding option Disable links in signatures?

Example:

 

[refael]

Do you have plan adding option Disable links in signatures?

Example:

There is such option in my addon for XF1.
But I decided not to include it in the XF2 addon because I don't think it's useful.

 

[Nirjonadda]

I don't think it's useful.

Does not know that why you are thinking Option are not useful? Functionality should have enable/disable option for choice.

 

[deslocotoco]

I love favicons everywhere, including in my signatures from my Staff.

 

[Chromaniac]

just wanted to update here that this addon might require an update for 2.1. cheers!

 

[deslocotoco]

just wanted to update here that this addon might require an update for 2.1. cheers!

Thanks for the info.

I'm making a list right now for plugins because I'm going to update my XF to 2.1 today.