Feature #24766
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External Urls - Usability of the default protocol setting
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Description
If you create a new Page "external link" the default protocol is always set to http://.
In my eyes this is not optimal for usability. Editors, and btw me to :), often simply copy and page an URL from browser to the URL field don`t caring about to remove the protocol from link.
This would result in a link like this "http:// http:// www.google. com".
As we all know this link wouldn`t work and is confusing the editors.
Solution: Set "Auto" as default.
I think this would be a great enhancement for LTS.
(issue imported from #M17259)
Updated by Steffen Gebert over 13 years ago
Sorry, but it's stupidness.
I think having the http:// in place makes it more clear, that www.example.com is not sufficient.
You also have to clear or mark the contents of a page title field, before pasting a new value.
Updated by Henrik Ziegenhain over 13 years ago
You`re right, it`s pure stupidness :)
But most editors are "stupid".
For example pasting external links into RTE works fine with and without a protocol.
So there are 2 different ways to paste links.
Updated by Steffen Gebert over 13 years ago
Fine, could you please open an issue in the Usabilty team tracker? http://forge.typo3.org/projects/usability
We will find a common solution for 4.6
Updated by Chris topher over 12 years ago
- Target version changed from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1
Updated by Chris topher over 12 years ago
- Target version changed from 4.6.1 to 4.6.2
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Updated by Feeela no-lastname-given about 12 years ago
This doesn't has anything to do with "stupidness", but with usability. In the current implementation it's just not really usable to a customer.
Also the default link creation behavior should be without any scheme (as in: //www.example.org) which is perfectly valid as of RFC 3986: Section 4.2 and is supported by any software, that have implemented the URI syntax (well, except Typo3). The protocol will get inherited from the current document. This allows a site being called via http and https without caring about the links.
For further discussion on taht topic see for example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/550038/is-it-valid-to-replace-http-with-in-a-script-src-http
Updated by Stefan Galinski about 12 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Subject changed from external Links - bad default protocol to External Urls - Usability of the default protocol setting
- Status changed from New to Needs Feedback
Like Steffen already said a ticket inside the usability tracker would be helpful and please relate it to this one. IMHO your proposed solution looks very interesting and I never saw such stuff in the wild. :-)
Updated by Alexander Opitz almost 11 years ago
Hi,
as this issue is very old. Does the problem still exists within newer versions of TYPO3 CMS (4.5 or 6.1)?
Updated by Henrik Ziegenhain almost 11 years ago
Yeb, this is stall valid in my eyes.
I opened an issue insithe the usability tracker: #50315
Updated by Alexander Opitz almost 11 years ago
- Status changed from Needs Feedback to Closed