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Make it easier to create links on a mobile device
It would be nice to have some kind of help for creating links on mobile. Those [ ] characters are hidden away on most keyboards.
Ideally it should be easy both to insert a new link from scratch, and also select text and turn it into a link.
Some projects add a toolbar on the bottom when using a mobile device (logseq for instance), but commands could also be an option i guess
A bottom bar would be nice, but as far as I can tell this is still technically impossible to achieve using web technology (you'd want a bar on top of the keyboard, right?). Perhaps on Android it can be made to work, but I don't think it can be on iOS. An (additional) top bar could be possible, but not sure how that should operate from a UX perspective.
A command of course we can do, but not sure that is actually helping? Triggering a command to insert a link will also take a few taps and typing in (part of) the command name.
Ah, yes, your are right, those bottom bars are probably not in the pure web interface, only in the apps.
It is my understanding that this may be possible to do even with PWAs. I'm not a frontend expert, but can't you write javascript to detect when a screen resize happens that matches the screen resolution of a text entry window happening and then add the button bar, and remove it when the resolution gets bigger? Could you use CSS Media Queries? And possibly only doing this when there are other solid indicators of running in a mobile browser? This would be helpful for more than just adding links, but could work like hotkeys for mobile, allowing users to map to any buttons they'd want would be huge and allow mobile users to have a much better app experience
