[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by Affair on Touhy Ave.

the 1st and 3rd links don't work.

Thonks a bunch touhy
I have now revised them
the error in both was an extra and extranious http://
inserted at the beginning of the two non functional URLs as I pasted them caused by the stoopid bulletin board program's regrettable habit of declining to remove the proferred http:// when an entirely correct URL is pasted (from the clipboard no less) directly into the "insert Link" popup that err umm pops up .
IMHO this is a completely unnecessary feature/aberation.
It should be programmed so that pasting a complete kosher URL (which of course should already include the necessary http://) into the insert link entry box automatically overwrirtes any existing text such as the aforementioned and offending http:// therein so that in this case the unrequired and therefore entirely superfluous http:// is not inadvertently duplicated
Meanwhile unless Florian can figure out a correction it behoves all punters tryng to insert a clickable URL to preview and correct as neccesary.
To sum up and add insult to injury I find that the really annoying thing is that using the "insert link" feature is itselt surely superfluous because
there is in the Aditional Options menu below the reply text box which wonder of wonders includes an option that is already checked that promises LYINGLY to "Automatically parse links in text" and I believe that should mean that any URL pasted in should automatically get presented (i.e. "parsed") as a clickable hyperlink in the standard orange coloration not the hard to read blue
http://worldhistoryproject.org/1956/...ording-session
that will be used unless you go to the trouble of utilising the obviously incompetent "insert link" feature (the small blue globe plus a chain link icon on the toolbar)
I rest my case!!!