Talk.Links

I think the recommendation should say whether the text description of the URL must be all on one line or not. -- AlexSchroeder

Should creole support recognition of url's without markup as links? Example: if there is http://www.wikicreole.org it would become a link without having to put markup around it. I think it would be useful - intiuitive and less typing.

--Christoph

Moved discussion about address/description order to Talk.AlternateLinkSyntaxProposal.

27. April 2007#

To be honest, they haven't been discussed yet, so basically we don't know. On the other hand, ThereIsNoWrongWayToImplementCreole, so nobody will kill you if you skip them -- at the worst, you get some users complaining that they miss it.

-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-Apr-28

It's only mandatory if you have an implementation of InterWiki in your wiki. If you don't use InterWiki, you can safely ignore it.

-- ChuckSmith, 2007-Apr-30

Mailto links#

I propose the usage of mailto://test@example.com (to be rendered in output as mailto:test@example.com) for email urls, even if this is not standards-friendly. Any opinion about this? Is there a better place where to post this suggestion? Or should we postpone the discussion to the next Creole specification?

-- DanieleC., 2007-Jul-03

Why?

-- YvesPiguet, 2007-Jul-03

In WikiOnAStick there is no automatic URL decoration, so external URLs (with protocol) have to be specified using square brackets [[protocol://uniformresourcelocator]]; if we'd parse [[mailto:test@example.com]] as test@example.com, a page titled mailto:something would never get the internal wiki hyperlink. Using the double slashes also on mailto protocol would prevent this. This is our solution to our problem, I still have to understand if it has relevance in WikiCreole.

-- DanieleC., 2007-Jul-05

Inner Page Anchors and Links#

For inner page anchors, the following syntax is recommend:

 [[#1]] 

Suggested HTML:

 <a name='1' /> 

For inner page links, the following syntax is recommended:

 [[#1|text]] 

Suggested HTML:

 <a href='#1'>text</a> 

Note: without optional link text, using the # results in an inner page anchor. However, when using the optional link text, using the # results in a link to an inner page anchor.

-- JohnCook

I'd prefer a clearer way to disambiguate anchors and links, so that links don't need text; e.g. [[@Chater1]] for anchor and [[#Chapter1]] or [[#Chapter1|Chapter 1]] for link.The at character is used for labels in some assembly languages, iirc, so it isn't new. It would also blend more cleanly with links between pages.

-- YvesPiguet, 2007-Jul-17