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maranomynet
Linkify doesnt identify the mail.google.com type of links
It doesnt identify the urls like mail.google.com
and also it identifies www.something (without .com,.edu etc)as a link
the www.foo (without TLD) thing is a bug. I will look into it.
Just some quick thoughts, regarding the mail.google.com issue:
Two things I like to avoid:
- False positives - like turning Java-package names, or other dot-delimited strings into broken URLs.
- Bias towards a limited number of TLDs - because I'm from .is and all the special-casing .com/.org/.net that I see every day, annoys me. :-)
- Adding too much bloat to the core plugin.
So, at the moment, I lean towards having the core plugin not doing this.
However, this seems like a great idea for an optional plugin.
LOL @ GitHub's linkifer - it also turns "www.something" into a hyperlink.
I wouldn't consider a proper regexp "bloat".
The original linkify library has a list of actual TLDs. Unfortunately it hasn't been maintained in 4 years, or I'd recommend using it instead of this one.
Well I haven't maintained this plugin for 3 years, so there's not much difference, I guess :-) Oh, and I didn't know of Alman's same-name plugin. I just wrote this one, gave it a too obvious name and threw it in here.
Anyway, it wasn't so much the RegExp that I was afraid would cause bloat - but rather whatever code might be needed to handle edge-cases and avoid false-positives.
If I were to play around with this today (which I'm unlikely to do), I'd probably add a simple RegExp and an option to turn it off if the false-positives annoy you.