[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18149: Enhance "Insert/edit link" to predict user's intent

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#18149: Enhance "Insert/edit link" to predict user's intent
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 Reporter:  itsalltech1              |       Owner:  azaozz
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  UI                       |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  minor                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion ui-feedback  |
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Comment (by Ipstenu):

 I spent the train thinking about this one.

 In order to have a patch auto-insert http:// to all URLs, we'd have to
 either make sure the grep checks for <something>.<something> OR completely
 give up on the concept of using relative URLs.

 For .com blogs (and even other managed blog setups), that's a perfectly
 simple answer. There's nothing installed on your site except WordPress
 because WP is the be all and end all of your site.  But .org doesn't hold
 by that lockdown so we have to consider the possibility this would break
 sites if enforced.  Also how would it work for people who want to manually
 create internal TOC with a link of #foobar (obviously the answer there is
 'They use HTML and manually insert the URLs' but is that the best
 answer?).

 I think that relative path is a good point for now.  See how it plays out
 in the real world with 3.3 before making a call that has that far reaching
 implications.

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