https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126946
--- Comment #1 from orcmid <orc...@apache.org> --- (In reply to Lalith Ramesh from comment #0) > form www.oracle.com are automatically recognized and a hyperlink is created. > URLs of the form java.oracle.com are not. > Both URLs should be underlined and have hyperlinks. It is interesting that my email reader does the same thing with the plaintext email I received from the Bugzilla system when it sent me the text of this newly-opened issue. Here's what I find interesting. *Neither* of those forms are in official URL format. There is a standard for URLs that neither satisfy. They both look like domain names but need not be such, and need not be accessible as web sites. Technically, turning www.oracle.com into a URL (apparently because of the www) is a hack introduced by programming as some idea of what is the likely user intent. These days, it might be the case that https://www.oracle.com is actually required (if not for that domain, some other www.*.* one). To be consistent, neither should be automatically turned into links. There are ways to make links and that would involve entering a correct URL for whatever one wants the given text to become a link for. There are similar hacks around forms such as r...@bz.apache.org where some software hacks will turn it into the URL form mailto:r...@bz.apache.org when that is not what is intended. Then it is necessary to convince the software that does that to remove the introduction of a link. The problem is that different users have different expected behaviors. And it can be very difficult to discourage software from automatically infering a link when it is not desired. I think we need to consider 1. Leaving Impress as it is, so long as there is a way to force the link to be removed. 2. Removing the automatic link creation so that all link creation is by intentional use of the mechanism already available for that. Any scheme for making more of them automatically will always miss some and introduce, for some users, unpleasant false positives. Thoughts? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
