I think parsing [
http://www.someurl.com] as <a
href="http://www.someurl.com">[1]</a> is very useful
for documenting sources within articles, particularly
quotes from web-accessible material. See the
breastfeeding article, for example.
But you can still do that with [http://... (1)] (or
[http://...|(1)] -- I plan to allow the use of "|" to be
consistent with internal link syntax).
Would it be possible to have [
http://www.someurl.com
description] expanded in the printable version?
That's certainly doable, but I think I'll just make the
conversion do this:
[http://...] ==> [http://...|(1)]
http://... ==> [http://...]
And since the latter will print the URL, the functionality
won't change much.