Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid
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So I paste this: https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl
It gets oneboxed to this:
Home Internet Plans
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http://i.imgur.com/SLkzA8q.pngThis is stupid. The hyperlink was meaningful. Residential Internet DSL. The onebox is stupid-- it's just the favicon and the entire website's name. I know it's relying on document.title or something stupid like that, but that's stupidly stupid.
If the Onebox doesn't provide useful information, can we just keep the Hyperlink?
Or do something @boomzilla did with the Gootube links? Include the hyperlink in the onebox. So it'd look like this:
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Even things with an actual onebox end up with the kind of mangled title that means you need to hover and see the link target for things like "what site is this? Is it a credible news source or some crazies"?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
If the Onebox doesn't provide useful information
Please regal us on how you expect our meager software to accomplish such a thing.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@Lorne-Kates said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
If the Onebox doesn't provide useful information
Please regal us on how you expect our meager software to accomplish such a thing.
Just do what Jaloopomatic is saying: do it for fucking everything.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@Lorne-Kates said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
If the Onebox doesn't provide useful information
Please regal us on how you expect our meager software to accomplish such a thing.
Just do what Jaloopomatic is saying: do it for fucking everything.
Oh. I didn't realize that was what he was inferring.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
Oh. I didn't realize that was what he was inferring.
That's what I inferred. if it isn't, then I'll say it.
But the goddamn link on fucking everything.
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I'd rather get the "helpful" oneboxes fixed so that clicking on the image opens the link instead of just linking to the image.
E.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_americaClicking on the globe image links to
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Location_North_America.svg/200px-Location_North_America.svg.png. Why, what did you want?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
So I paste this: https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl
It gets oneboxed to this:
Home Internet Plans
No hidden fees or required long term commitments. Discover the variety of speeds and prices we have that are sure to fit your budget.
(image for archiving purposes):
http://i.imgur.com/SLkzA8q.pngAn easy workaround it either to put other text around it so it doesn't one-box or put it as an HTML anchor tag. ;)
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@djls45 said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@Lorne-Kates said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
So I paste this: https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl
It gets oneboxed to this:
Home Internet Plans
No hidden fees or required long term commitments. Discover the variety of speeds and prices we have that are sure to fit your budget.
(image for archiving purposes):
http://i.imgur.com/SLkzA8q.pngAn easy workaround it either to put other text around it so it doesn't one-box or put it as an HTML anchor tag. ;)
Yes, that is a perfect solution. I will just try to remember to always mangle data I want to tell people in order for it not to get mangled. :/
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@djls45 said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
or put it as an HTML anchor tag
But not on its own line, with itself as the text...
<a href="https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl">https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl</a>
Home Internet Plans
No hidden fees or required long term commitments. Discover the variety of speeds and prices we have that are sure to fit your budget.
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@anotherusername said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@djls45 said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
or put it as an HTML anchor tag
But not on its own line, with itself as the text...
<a href="https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl">https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl</a>
Home Internet Plans
No hidden fees or required long term commitments. Discover the variety of speeds and prices we have that are sure to fit your budget.
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@anotherusername said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@djls45 said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
or put it as an HTML anchor tag
But not on its own line, with itself as the text...
<a href="https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl">https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl</a>
Home Internet Plans
No hidden fees or required long term commitments. Discover the variety of speeds and prices we have that are sure to fit your budget.
I thought I tried that one, and it didn't one-box. Hrmph. I did try markdown's quick-link syntax, and that one-boxes, too.'['https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl ']' '('https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl ')'
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@djls45 said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@anotherusername said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@djls45 said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
or put it as an HTML anchor tag
But not on its own line, with itself as the text...
<a href="https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl">https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl</a>
Home Internet Plans
No hidden fees or required long term commitments. Discover the variety of speeds and prices we have that are sure to fit your budget.
I thought I tried that one, and it didn't one-box. Hrmph. I did try markdown's quick-link syntax, and that one-boxes, too.'['https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl ']' '('https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl ')'Quick-links inside
<code>tags are still 'quick-linked' instead of displayed as-typed. Order-of-formatting issue?Filed under: Hyperlinks are hard.
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@djls45
<code>tags don't disable all highlighting inside them... if you want that, enclose the text inside back-quote characters (`).[https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl](https://teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/dsl)(the
<code>tag does appear to disable some highlighting, but it's
consistent.)edit: using two backquote characters at each end works too (
``text``=>text) -- that can help, when you're trying to quote code that contains`characters.
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Should we just get rid of iframely?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
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No hidden fees or required long term commitments. Discover the variety of speeds and prices we have that are sure to fit your budget.
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@ben_lubar said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
Should we just get rid of iframely?
I would not really miss it. On the plus side, this would help with page scroll jankiness, right?
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@bb36e said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@ben_lubar said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
Should we just get rid of iframely?
I would not really miss it. On the plus side, this would help with page scroll jankiness, right?
For sure.
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@bb36e said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@ben_lubar said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
Should we just get rid of iframely?
I would not really miss it. On the plus side, this would help with page scroll jankiness, right?
What if we tried it over the weekend?
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@bb36e said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
@Lorne-Kates said in Oneboxing hyperlinks is stupid:
Home Internet Plans
No hidden fees or required long term commitments. Discover the variety of speeds and prices we have that are sure to fit your budget.
omg isp twinsies
North America - Wikipedia
