TESSL - Tech's Exciting Simple System for Links

[Tech]

Sometimes people ask: "What on earth were you thinking of, making it so complicated to insert a link into a post?" I usually answer, "I dunno really, I must be a bit thick."

To rectify this sad state of affairs, we've added a new way to insert a simple links to another website (or other bits of mn of course). To do so, just type the full address inside and . So to link to our lovely home page you would type www.mumsnet.com without the spaces, and it would come up as www.mumsnet.com.

The old complicated way still works if you want to display text other than the link itself....

We'll update the Links guide to the right of the message box to reflect this.

Regards,
Tech

yay..no stopping the pan!!

www.soest.hawaii.edu/expeditions/mariana/forkids.html

I'm deeply offended that you could accuse me of such behaviour, Tech.

Sniff.

Oh, sorry soupy. I always associate the bat with you (cos it's called soupy I suppose). I'm sure you wouldn't in fact dream of such a thing....

I must not cast aspersions on soupydragon's character.
I must not cast aspersions on soupydragon's character.
I must not cast aspersions on soupydragon's character.
I must not cast aspersions on soupydragon's character.
I must not cast aspersions on soupydragon's character.
I must not cast aspersions on soupydragon's character.

sorry some excess y characters there (prob making insult worse...). I'll slink away now..

How could anyone imagine that Soupy would trick people with that bat? Tsk.

www.jask-holidays.co.uk/caytonp1.jpg
just checking

Not QUITE as much fun as the old way though

the 'comment' could be such fun!!!

Oh I think it's much more elegant to be able to just type a word or something to link to, like this:

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THAT'S what you were thinking Tech.

Or, something like this nice cup of...

brilliant

I don't like it ... it looks untidy ... kindly get rid of it

anyway surely learning how to do links is a right of passage

Or even a rite...

www, that's why we left the old way working rather than doing description and making it all too easy. Those who have suffered to learn the horrible link syntax would surely cavil and wail. Actually, I'll have a look at doing that description but leave the old way working behind the scenes as well.

Incidentally, I wonder if that soest.hawaii.edu site notices all the traffic from here and wonders what causes it. On the fruit bats, I remember when I went on hols to Australia going for a Daintree river cruise. There were thousands of those fruit bats / flying foxes in all the trees. They are the cutest animals you ever did see with huuuuge big eyes. Sadly, there were also lots more of them which were just the wing-skins - left alongside some very fat tree pythons what had eaten the rest of the carcass. Poor little mites.

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Ewww at the poor ickle baybee bats

I think Cod and Soupy contacted that site about the bat and they found it tres amusant iirc.

Oh no, how sad about the fruit bats . FWIW quite a few people have saved the bat to their own space, more in order to trick people more efficiently (esp. those who hover and check the URL before checking, like moi) than to save bandwidth, but I suppose every little helps.

Oooh! Must play!

www.justgiving.com/wwwjustgivingcomdanny

www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/ClareAndJessAreRacingForLife

Can you still do it the old way too?? Cos you can't really give them funky labels now can you..

actually Tamum .. maybe I was implying that learning to do links the 'proper way' gave one the right to travel from newbie status to member status hence right of passage

This is certainly earlier.. but are the people who really actually COULDN'T do it the old way? I meant it wasn't hard... jsut fiddly!

Touche

EASIER not EARLIER!! I am typing CRAP tonight! Much more so then usual!!

I always wondered about the bat's host too. Did Cod really contact them? What did the people at soest.hawaii.edu say?

because he loves you .. he has a secret name for you .. its soupydragon .. a la cuddlywuddlydragon .. its lurve I tell you ... real twue wub