What does 'convert links automatically'?

[MogadoredMemoo]

That has started appearing below the message box??

[HopeEternal]

Marking my spot as I came here to find out the same thing.

[Doyouthinktheysaurus]

Yes, I was wondering this too.

I put a tick in the box, just in case it might do something useful but as far as I can tell, nothing happened

[flowery]

[TrillianAstra]

Try it.

If you have a link in the message you have written, it will convert it to a proper link not just some text

[TrillianAstra]

www.dramabutton.com

without

[TrillianAstra]

//www.dramabutton.com

with

[TrillianAstra]

For people who are rubbish at linking and can't figure out what to do with this and this.

Behold my mastery of links-with-alternative-names

[Doyouthinktheysaurus]

Oh...I like that



Thanks Trillian

[FellatioNelson]

so if you are linking to a whole website address it's easy but what if you are just linking a page - what do you type in? If you are going back anf forth between tabs then the top address bar disappears anyway.

[FellatioNelson]

www.amazon.co.uk?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 without

[FellatioNelson]

<a class="break-all" href="//www.amazon.co.uk?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21" rel="nofollow noindex" target="_blank">//www.amazon.co.uk?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 with

[Spammead]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12605850 little test.

[FlamingOBingo]

Why do you need it, though? I mean, why would you not want it to be a link? Can't they just do it automatically?

[TrillianAstra]

Because when I do my clever linking with the alternative name, if the website automatically turned the linky bit into a link I'd be left with a bit mess

like this

[TrillianAstra]

Oh, wow, it's cleverer than I thought.

No idea why you would want it to not convert the link then.

I thought youd end up with

[[
img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_03/woganDM1510_800x568.jpg
like this]]

[TrillianAstra]

or something else horrid

[SoupDragon]

It's probably just to help out those who are too thick to do a link the proper way.

[FlamingOBingo]

But couldn't the techs just make it automatic without having to tick the box.

[FlamingOBingo]

?

[SoupDragon]

Not really because then things like www.catsbummouthsRus.com would convert to a link and it isn't one.

[TrillianAstra]

Yes I think they could make it automatic - and now I know that it works when I try to do a named link I don't see why they wouldn't.

Soupy I think it'd be funny for people to try to click on www.catsbumsmouthsareus.com

[ivykaty44]

www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/

[FlamingOBingo]

So, SD? The interweb would hardly explode if that happened...but surely just irritating to have to always remember to tick a box before you press 'post' if you've put a link in it.

[Tee2072]

www.leyser.org/TeeBlog Tee's Blog

But does it do smart links?

[Tee2072]

Nope. Still need to code for those, I guess.