On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Mark Rejhon <marky...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Matthew Miller > <linuxw...@outer-planes.net> wrote: >>> What about URLs that are not in <a/> elements? >> >> Frankly, "too bad so sad". The sender really ought to have put them in >> anchors in the first place. > > It seems some XHTML-IM clients seem to URL-ize links that are not > already URL-ized. This goes for discussion forums .... phpBB always > URL-ize links that are not in [url] [/url] ....
phpBB is the sender, not the receiver of these data - it's not your web browser that's automatically linkifying. Senders can automatically linkify XHTML-IM, recipients shouldn't. /K
