Zugg Software :: View topic - Clickable Hyper Links

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Ok, this is a major upgrade to the previous click able links that is posted here by someone else.

I've added support for the following styles of writing a link (so that its easier to make them clickable when someone types a link into chat):
http://www.whatever.com
www.whatever.com
whatever.com
whoever@whatever.com

I've also included all current tlds for the whatever.com format, so whatever.us, whatever.ru, whatever.cs etc etc etc should all work.

There is an alias to add new tlds, and it supports multiple at once.
EXAMPLE:
addtld .us
addtld .uk .ca .am

Wanderer Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 58

awesome script, I used to have such a trigger with simply #tr {http://(*)} {#mxp <a "http://%1>%1</a>}, this changes it!

where did you get the tlds list?

also, Website at http://www.firstage.net/
sends me to http://www.firstage.net&&http//www.firstage.net

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

I got the tld list off of wikipedia, took me about 15 minutes to put them all in. Its a HUGE list. I just did a google search for top level domain and it came up ;)

As for it being awesome, thank you. I've suggested that Zugg re-write his regex version that is included with CMUD 2.26+ to include these updates, as his just supports what one of my 3 does (the http://|ftp:// stuff) And adding the tld capabilities will be nice ;)

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:50 pm

I always wonder, whenever I hear about them, what exactly the point of TLDs is, you know. I've always thought it'd be much easier just to go to "http://google" or "http://images.google" for example. It'd remove the (very common) problem where a company registers, say, .com but forgets to register.co.uk, and someone steals it (link is NSFW). It'd also mean you don't have to remember which one a site chose, which can often be difficult. The only argument I've heard is that it allows more websites to be registered, which is frankly retarded - most websites register under as many TLDs as they can, and those that don't end up being confused anyway. It's not as if there's a shortage of strings, even ones that make sense in english. Pff.