On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 20:48, Nimish Gautam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I wanted to change the "cite" extension to have some extra functionality. > > As citations have gotten more common, I've noticed an emerging use case > where people will copy and paste text from wikipedia to HTML-enabled > tools such as email clients or IM clients to share information. > Unfortunately, those citation links just link to anchors on the page and > don't provide anything useful when copied/pasted. Appending the full > page's URL to those links would take like 20 seconds, make them > functional, but would add extra markup to every page. Anyone have any > other good reasons why we shouldn't do this?
As Conrad pointed out using non-absolute URLs like this is by design and not doing so would break other functionality. What browser are you using and how are you copy-pasting the HTML from the browser to your E-Mail/IM programs? If it's some feature where you highlight a text on the page and the browser automatically fetches the underlying HTML then not resolving anchor links on the page sounds like a bug in that browser. Are are you just viewing the source of the page and copy/pasting snippets from there? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
