XF 1.5.x - Make the new URL-Converter also work with links like "www.google.com"

[otto]

Normaly link in a post:

http://www.google.de

will work: Google - thats ok.

Simplyfied link in a post:

www.google.de

dont work, it givs me a www.google.de instead of a Google - thats not ok

I think the point is - this URL convertation feature is realy nice, but many (the most?) members post links without

http://

bevor the domain. Thats normaly ok - Xenforo make this also to be a clickable link.

But it would be better, the URL convertation feature will also work with these simplyfied links.

 

[Chromaniac]

I believe the plugin from one of the XenForo developers available through Resources section does this already.

 

[otto]

And this is the point I dont understand why this is not complete included now in Xenforo 1.5.

 

[imthebest]

I guess Mike and/or Kier were against it.

Anyway I don't care because this feature is very confusing, I dislike it and I'm not going to enable it on my forum!

 

[Mike]

Bizarre reasoning that we're against it...

I actually explained the logic elsewhere: the title conversion only happens if the text of the link is identical to the link itself. This isn't a new behavior, it has been like this with automatic media embedding since that was added multiple years ago. It's easy to demonstrate:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

The title system piggybacks that logic. To change it would mean adding a special case to handle this situation (which can come up in multiple ways so an approach would be needed that would be consistent in all of them).

 

[Alpha1]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

You might want to add a warning before people click that and suffer from torment and mental damage.

 

[otto]

And I love our german laws ...