Grim... wrote:
If you want to make a bare text URL clickable you just type it into the main posting box - you only need to wrap it in tags if it's got invalid characters in.
Ah, yes, you're right. Well that makes an even better argument for my idea because it means the URL button's functionality is utterly half-arsed at the moment; in that it's not at all required for bare URLs and only does a random part of the job in the other scenario. I wonder why it's designed that way (presuming it's the default board software functionality we're running here)?
Grim... wrote:
I don't know how much of a problem it is because I don't really use the buttons, I just type it in, so I'll listen if other people are struggling with the same thing. As you may have noticed, I don't like to take my hands off the keyboard unless I have to
I'm not really struggling or anything, it's just something that's annoyed me a bit because when I'm URLising text I wonder why I'm having to do half the job manually. It did also strike me the other day when someone was considering doing Beex Week but admitted to not knowing how to URLise stuff that having to edit the tags manually is pretty unfriendly in general. Um, not that I'm saying this'll help keep Beex Week running, lest I utterly sabotage my own suggestion here.
Grim... wrote:
Also, that handy-dandy popup box would be broken in iOS7 Safari, so I'd have to write one
Eh, I had assumed you just wouldn't bother applying a change like this to the mobile skin because (a) it's more work and (b) how many people are striving to do nice formatting like this when they're posting from their phone? Certainly I don't and probably still wouldn't purely because selecting text is a pain in the dick.