a voice from the wilderness... why not make it as simple as possible? do both--textile provides neater urls, but there's still friction with the avg user--autolinking puts the onus on being "smart" on the software, which is always good for the customer experience.
thanks for the great work! k. On 3/21/07, Luke Melia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if there's a way we could communicate this to users more clearly. A > tooltip perhaps? Or maybe a hideable div or something? > > > On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:07 PM, James Kebinger wrote: > > Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know tracks supported that. > I added a note to the ticket that this works using textile notation in case > anyone has the same question in the future. > -james > > On 3/21/07, bsag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue Mar 20 14:17:37 UTC 2007, James Kebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Its early in the day and my brain isn't in gear yet, so I'm not sure I > > > understand what you're proposing - is it that Tracks do nothing to > auto-link > > > strings that look like urls because its not that hard to do the html > markup > > > oneself? (if you know html) > > > > No, I didn't mean mark it up with HTML, but with Textile > > > > "link": http://google.com > > > > I don't think that's too hard, and as I said, you get a much neater note. > > > > cheers, > > > > bsag > > > > > > > > On 3/20/07, bsag < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 20 Mar 2007, at 2:04, James Kebinger wrote: > > > > > > > > > I threw some amazon links into todo notes fields today and was > > > > > annoyed that they didn't become links - I see ticket281 has been > > > > > open for a while. Is there a consensus on enabling textile or > > > > > markdown syntax for notes fields vs finding and converting links > > > > > with a regex etc vs doing nothing? I'm willing to do the legwork to > > > > > get any of these options done if we can make a decision on which > > > > > one to go with. > > > > > > > > I'd actually rather manually mark up links with Textile or Markdown. > > > > It's a tiny manual overhead versus quite a lot of processing time. > > > > Links actually look much nicer if you mark them up because they're > > > > more compact, and you can give them a meaningful name (particularly > > > > useful for Amazon URLs which are otherwise not very human-readable. > > > > > > > > But I'm open to suggestions. I think doing it manually is very little > > > > work (I tend to mark them up without thinking) for a nicer result. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tracks-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Tracks-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss > > -- http://www.reemer.com: My blog on customer experience, media, and technology _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
