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Post by
Zalambar
As forum or comment posters most of us a pretty lazy and just paste in a url when we want to refer to an item, spell, quest, or whatever here on wowhead. Since urls in a comment are automatically converted into links we can see the tooltips for each linked item to identify them but it's still a pain to see a list like:
You should upgrade to one of these:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19970
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19022
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=25978
and not be able to immediately know what the poster is talking or compare discussions about unless you've memorized item IDs.
Would it be too difficult to take any url starting with "
http://www.wowhead.com/?"
and replace the link text with the name of the linked wowhead page?
For example convert:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=25978
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12318
to
Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole
Save Brewfest!
I suspect you could do this either server side when processing comment submissions or through client side javascript, renaming the links once the associated tooltips are loaded but I'm not sure which option is better.
Post by
Malgayne
We were actually discussing this today. We have a plan for this for the near future!
Post by
blademeld
I thought the word
soon
would be relevant to this topic.
Post by
pelf
We were actually discussing this today. We have a plan for this for the near future!
I think you should do the quality/type coloring on the fly too. And add the brackets. Maybe bold.
Considering it's possible that might not be the desired behavior, maybe you should just add another tag for auto-formatted links?
Post by
Wanderingfox
While you have it on the table, I'd like to bring up my vote (once again) for itemstats style bbcode for wowhead links on the site.
Example:
Edgewalker Longboots would result in the text "" as a colorized link to the item with the tooltip.
Similer could be done for and having all of them accept either a name or id.
Post by
ArgentSun
Some items/spells/quests have the same name.
Post by
122668
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Wanderingfox
name or id?
Did you just skim over my post, or are you deliberately ignoring what i wrote? XD
Edgewalker Longboots and 28545 would be the same thing. This would go for spells and quests as well. It's really not that hard.
Post by
blademeld
Who goes around memorizing ID's?
Post by
Skyfire
Who goes around memorizing ID's?
You're going to probably be looking up the quest anyway, unless you just manage to be able to pull urls out of your butt. Right?
:P
Post by
blademeld
Unless you just manage to be able to pull urls out of your butt. Right?
:P
Umm...
Not out of my butt...
:P
Post by
pelf
Umm...
Not out of my butt...
:P
I know I store my address bar in my butt.
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