July 21, 2004
Baby Got Back, or Usability Ain't All About The Front-end
Which is more ridiculous?
Posting a URL in a web community forum with automatic URL-to-link functionality without including the "http://" (?), or the fact that no forum software recognizes a URL without the http:// with its URL-to-link feature?
Yes, the latter. I agree. No forum software I know even gives you the option.
Fill in obvious rant about not placing the burden on the site visitor and putting the site to work for the site visitor here.
Posted by jtnt at July 21, 2004 12:10 AM in Web Development | TrackBack
A good regex goes a long way. Many more advanced strings have been parsed than the possible variations of a URL.
Posted by: jtnt at July 22, 2004 07:11 PMThe problem is, where do you draw the line? If you make things too inclusive, then you might find any old decimal number (e.g. 12.45) or typo ('He was good.At school...') being linked to. If you don't make it inclusive enough people will always find weird ways to break it.
Posted by: Lach at July 21, 2004 10:48 PM