[wp-hackers] WP 3.1 beta Make Internal Linking featureavailable in HTML mode too

[Chip Bennett]

Ah, that's a bit of a shame. Maybe a future improvement, I hope!

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:37 AM, William P. Davis <will.davis at gmail.com>wrote:

> Looks like it just generates an absolute URL based on the post you select.
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
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> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:32:25
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> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] WP 3.1 beta Make Internal Linking feature
>  available in HTML mode too
>
> Now that's a pretty neat idea!
>
> (By the way, does the new internal-linking feature save the internal links
> in an import-export friendly manner, or are they absolute URLs?)
>
> Chip
>
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:
>
> > On 11/20/10 8:59 AM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> > So, I have to agree with the OP, that providing the Internal Linking
> > feature
> >
> >> in the HTML editor is appropriate (though, perhaps Plugin territory?).
> >>
> > I still thin it wouldn't belong in the HTML editor. That said, there is
> an
> > analogous example: embedding media files. In the Visual editor, there is
> a
> > button for image insertion in the WYSIWYG toolbar. In the HTML editor,
> there
> > is a button to create an img tag. However, both have access to the
> > fuller-featured media uploader that is accessed by clicking the icons
> ABOVE
> > the actual editor toolbars. If we want to create parity in the
> Visual/HTML
> > experiences, then the answer probably should be to put linking on the
> same
> > level as inserting media files at some point, rather than hijacking the
> HTML
> > editor's URL entry popup.
> >
> > j
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