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
Well played sir, well played.
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.
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.
