On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:02:32 -0700 Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, no need for URL: prefix. All urls m#(http|ftp|etc)://# are automatically converted into links. But it's good to have the main URL in the headers as your patch did.
Then why don't the perl.apache.org and Calmaeth links have HREFs
on these two pages?
http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/allakhazam.com.html http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/calmaeth.maths.uwa.edu.au.html
These two pages are what led me to believe only the links listed in
the URL: header were linked.
are sorry, <pre> text is not parsed. if you look at the autogenerated pod, those stories are converted into /^ $line/ format, so they are unparsed. The idea was to preserve email formatting and not needing to worry about pod-unsafe characters (<, >, &, etc.)
Alternatively we could replace that with plain text but first having pod unescaped. This should be just a local fix in ./make.pl. Once this is done then urls will be linked and text re-wrapped...
As we seemed to agree at the advocacy list, we shouldn't not delete sites that are no longer there. Just indicate that the site used to be "openscape.org" but is no longer with us. remove the http:// part, justing leaving the domain name, so it won't get linked.
I thought we could outsmart the death, by doing: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://openscape.org/ but alas the domain squatter set the robots rule, so we can't even know whether there were some pages stored in the internet archives.
But we should definitely use http://archive.org/ in the future for those sites that have ceased to exist, instead of removing the link.
That works for me. Yeah we definitely agree that we don't want to
remove stories for sites that no longer exist, but I wasn't sure
what we should do about sites that have changed ownership and
are obviously not the same site. I thought it might be confusing to
the reader.
Good idea about using archive.org, I always forget that site exists.
if the ownership changes, and we can give a direct link to the last snapshot at archive.org, then it's cool. in either case we should explain that the online version is either not there anymore or that the link that used to point there doesn't point to the same thing anymore. As usually old links tend to start pointing to porn sites, which try to cash on the existing users of those previously non-porn sites.
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