its not an API issue -- the API doesn't do any auto-URLification. however, i'll pass this thread off to the web client team.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, dbasch <dba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree. I searched the issues db and didn't find it. Not sure if it > belongs as an API issue but I submitted it anyway. > > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1298 > > On Dec 17, 2:49 pm, Ken Dobruskin <k...@cimas.ch> wrote: > > A closing parenthesis followed by a space seems like a pretty safe bet > too. I'm sure those rules have been worked out long ago - the RFC was > published in '94. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:55:14 -0800 > > > Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification > > > From: dba...@gmail.com > > > To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com > > > > > You can get pretty sophisticated and have lots of heuristics to guess > > > what the user actually meant. For example, a period followed by a > > > space and a word that starts with uppercase almost certainly means > > > that the period was the end of a sentence and not part of the url. > > > Twitter probably should do this, as it's quite conservative. > > > > > Diego > > > > > On Dec 17, 11:10 am, Ken Dobruskin <k...@cimas.ch> wrote: > > > > True, but Yahoo! Mail and others do get it right. > > > > It's been a few years I no longer worry sending an email with a URL > at the end of a sentence. I wonder how they do it. > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:48:31 -0800 > > > > > Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification > > > > > From: dba...@gmail.com > > > > > To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com > > > > > > > Periods and parentheses are valid url characters. Assuming that an > > > > > adjacent period or closing parenthesis is not part of the url is a > > > > > gamble. The most sensible urlification includes all valid > characters > > > > > until it finds one that clearly delimits the url such as a space. > > > > > > >http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt > > > > > > > On Dec 17, 7:13 am, Ken Dobruskin <k...@cimas.ch> wrote: > > > > > > When adding a URL surrounded by parentheses or followed by a > period, these marks are included in the resulting link. Is a trailing > whitespace the only workaround? It's ugly and wastes a character. > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, > right from Hotmail®. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-act... > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when > they e-mail you. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-act... > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Keep your friends updated—even when you’re not signed in. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-act... > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
