Posting a "URL"

[les]

There have been several posts about adding an URL into a tease.

For the normal webtease there are several addons that allow a piece of text that is a web url to behave as a link.

This will not happen in flash.
one solution mentioned has been a forum thread with the links listed.
this has a serious disadvantage as I see
All the links are visible out of sync.

typing the url is a pain

try this one
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-R ... play-Globa lly/dp/B003FSUDM4/ref=amb_link_353259562_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIK X0DER&pf_rd_s=center-10&pf_rd_r=11EYKTN682A79T370AM3&pf_rd_ t=201&pf_rd_p=1270985982&pf_rd_i=B002Y27P3M

in the forum I can do this


but you can't type that in.


http://tinyurl.com/KindleWireless

http://tinyurl.com/KindleWireless
now that is much easier

This is http://tinyurl.com/
http://tinyurl.com/


This is the same link
http://amzn.to/djCgj5

using http://bit.ly/
http://bit.ly/

there are others out there let us know of your favourites.

hope this helps you chaps and chapesses



this also works well for links in emails that tend to break when received


................................................. Les

[Nezhul]

erm.... is this supposed to be a tutorial on bb codes and url shrinking sites?

[les]

the benefits of url shrinking
I have put links in for those whose browsers don't auto link.



................................................. Les

[janmb]

The best thing would be if flash teases could somehow allow the author to make parts of the text (the URLs in question) clickable directly, or second best, selectable for copy&paste into another browser window.

Short URLs is of course a good interim solution that helps a lot, but they have the disadvantage of making links broken even more often than is the case for full URLs (since both the target URL as well as the short-URL service used can both contribute to break any given link)

So... Seraphox, please

[Nezhul]

that will not happen, he stated many times that there will be absolutely NO fixes for nyx anymore.

[green]

The best thing would be if flash teases could somehow allow the author to make parts of the text (the URLs in question) clickable directly, or second best, selectable for copy&paste into another browser window.

Short URLs is of course a good interim solution that helps a lot, but they have the disadvantage of making links broken even more often than is the case for full URLs (since both the target URL as well as the short-URL service used can both contribute to break any given link)

So... Seraphox, please

I thought about that too.. and I came to the conclusion that while.. CLICKABLE links are impossible...


You COULD in theory make a simple flash script, that opens another web-page, if you hover over it for like 3 seconds. If anyone is interested in that, please just reply ;D...

~green~

[Nezhul]

and I came to the conclusion that while.. CLICKABLE links are impossible...

Why? Possible. It's just that nyx is dropped, and seraphox doesn't want to spend any more time on it.

[janmb]

Sounds like we could use a new editor then, perhaps HTML5 too, to get rid of flash while at it.

I've been meddling with a solution based on QT/C++, but that is really not suitable for online use

Main problem, like always, is that people like myself have plenty ideas and no time :(