So if its just a URL without the []() syntax it would be, perhaps green, and links with it could stay blue. Good semantic to avoid spam or malware links.
Anyway, have any of you seen today’s XKCD? https://xkcd.com/3104
The link preview stuff in comments solves that problem. It’s not in posts though similar to apollo, only comments. It could be added to posts, maybe as a preference.
Edit: another idea is a pop to confirm location on click if URL-like label doesn’t match domain of actual url.
I like the idea in the edit more honestly. My only concern is that detecting a URL in the text part might be hard. Especially with a malicious user there could be invisible Unicode characters.
It’d also be nice if the link preview had a setting to put it under the paragraph with the link instead of at the bottom. A bit unweildy for some longer posts/comments.
Well played sir, well played.
I thought a bit more about it and I think instead of colouring URLs differently a better approach might be to colour
[]()in red if the label looks like a URL but is different from the actual URL.What does “look like a URL” entail.
^https?://[a-zA-Z0-9\.-]+(/[^\s]*)?$Been a while since I’ve written regex and it could certainly be a little bit more correct. But whatever Voyager already uses to find URLs in a text to turn into a link should suffice.
Okay, now what if I put in an invisible Unicode character in there?
For that you strip the string to be tested of all non-ASCII chars before you run the regex.
But I see what you mean. I just fear that if links could be shown in different equally non-threatening colors users wouldn’t know what to do with that information.
Okay, what if I use unicode characters that look similar to httрѕ://хkсd.соm/ and the function sees that an empty string is not a URL.
Yeah, I think the link preview is the only real solution. Like you said, best shown under the same paragraph.
I do like at the bottom of comments the links are listed and where they go to. But that doesn’t look like that happened here with your post’s link?
Edit: also for accessibility it’s best to not exclusively convey information through color.
Oh right accessability. Hmm. Maybe bolded? That’s also hackable by the markdown though.
