> > Besides, if this is the library used for web, you're not doing it > right. :) > For example, to mention URL parsing only, you don't check for valid > domain names (e.g. www.test.failure is matched as URL), > some characters are not recognized as part of a link (e.g. "|" in > "http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#auto|en|bonjour")... >
all we're trying to do is help people standardize on how they parse stuff. making sure you can represent what is a hash tag, a url, a username, etc., in the same way that twitter.com does it, can be difficult. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi