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[Krusty13]

I have found this thread started by elsewhere and I wondered if there have been any further thought or discussion concerning whether the default target should be "Open in new window (...blank)"  when adding links to our posts?

Huwyngr also makes a great point when he refers to the default addition of http:// as the standard URL which has to be removed before we can Copy/Paste address links within the forums.

Thanks,  Dave.

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

Thanks for nudging this --- I groan every time I do a link here after doing them over on Compuserve where the http:// is at least pre-highlighted so that pasting a full URL in wipes out the duplication.

[Krusty13]

I am surprised no one else has noticed this :  - 

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

That's not what I get as the default, if that's what you mean. I have to change to that and remove the http:// since who types in a URL starting with www ?

[Krusty13]

You are correct Hugh.  I meant to show what the default view could be,  but I forgot to highlight the http://.

Dave.

[Krusty13]

What the default view could look like.  - 

Dave.

[yank Trojan Terminator]

Perhaps I should not get into this conversation - but I have been selecting a URL I want to link to (via highlight and copy), selecting the Insert/Edit Link on many forums for many years and the first thing I do is delete the http:// in the popup and then paste the entire link (which includes the http://) from the copied URL and all works fine. 

If I know the URL and select the Insert/Edit link chain then I can type in (rather than use highlight/copy)  the URL starting with the www leaving the http:// in place.

Maybe I just don't understand what the problem is??? 

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

Welcome to the discussion

I started with Norton after years on Forums over on Compuserve long before they went to web format as they are now.

They are now hosted by a different company to here but many of the modules used are the same essentially -- like the Reply Editor I'm using now although the Compuserve one has one or two useful icons on the tool bar that are not here and ones like the paragraph indent actually work over there <gdr>

What we are talking about are not deal breakers and there are workarounds as you indicate but I imagine most people copy/paste URLs into the Create Link box here and if they do it with CTRL + V they end up with duplicate http:// at the beginning.

On the Compuserve versiion the http:// is highlighted as for deletiion or copying so a simple CTRL + V from a copied URL on the clipboard wipes out the redundent http:// and save the user having to do so.

The other box defaults to Replacing the Window that the link ends up in whereas in practice I think most of us want links in a message to open up in a new Window or Tab so that we can go back to where we were.

It has been suggested that the default here should be as Krusty suggests -- open in a new WIndow -- literally since just after the Forums opened when one of the active moderators who liased with the Forum Host Company enthusiastically agreed that it was better that way ..... but nothing has happened in all those years although I've nudged it from time to time.

So that's what it is all about -- not a problem but an improvement by eliminating a few keystrokes and annoyances.

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

It could look like that or as on Compuserve where the http:// is still there but highlighted so that it is overwritten.

I think that may have the advantage of reminding people what is meant to go there since not everyone is experienced in our arcane arts ...

In fact the Compuserve one is even simpler than here ... I'll see if I can snatch it.

As you can see it doesn't even give a where to open but defaults to not taking you away from where you are.

Ihad not noticed that you could select the type of hyperlink if you were creating one:

The drop list goes on outside the frame but I've not been able to capture it with Irfanview but you get the idea although this is a feature I've never used.