On 7/24/02 5:06 PM, "Brion VIBBER" brion@pobox.com wrote:
Brion VIBBER wrote:
The old software knew that 99.9% of the time humans don't _really_ mean it when they put a comma, period, or other such item of punctuation immediately after a URL, but that these are rather intended as, well, punctuation.
The new phase III software trusts us more; URLs that are followed immediately by punctuation (period, comma, paren, semicolon, etc) now include this punctuation in the hyperlink, which leads to a lot of broken external links where URLs are put casually into text, particularly on talk pages.
Bug or feature? You decide!
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So far the votes are tied 2-2:
Crop final punctuation from links: Brion, Tony Include final punctuation in links: Lee, Jan
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Crop.