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rolu

Dec 22, 2000, 5:47pm
if you put dots in your name (like R.o.l.u) you can make it blue, because
the program thinks it's an url. We're having fun with it at awgate at the
moment, but I think it's not really ok :-) It works that way with normal
text too, great way to stand out :-)

R.o.l.u

dennis13

Dec 24, 2000, 1:29pm
The best way to solve that is to not let people have dots in their names?
lol

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rolu

Dec 24, 2000, 5:47pm
Better way: don't assume that names can be URL's :-)

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tony56

Dec 25, 2000, 11:05pm
Yeah, Roland, make it check for ".com", ".org", ".net", etc.

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agent1

Dec 26, 2000, 12:30am
Well, AW3.1 doesn't check the names for URLs, anyway... Not all URLs have those strings in them (or if they do it would take a while to parse them out of the string) anyway.

-Agent1


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eep

Dec 26, 2000, 10:44pm
It would? mIRC can parse (and catch and save) URLs and email addresses with no problem. Perhaps Roland just simply needs to become more adept at programming.

[View Quote] > Well, AW3.1 doesn't check the names for URLs, anyway... Not all URLs have those strings in them (or if they do it would take a while to parse them out of the string) anyway.
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ananas

Dec 27, 2000, 4:02am
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Does mIRC require the protocol prefix to recognize URIs? That would be
easy to implement I think.

Or does it resolve the IP from names that could be an URL and mark only
the valid ones? If it does that it would become a problem as the browser
had to constantly resolve adresses, visiting crowded areas like AWGate
would not be a good idea then.

Implementing it "guess-based" is not a good idea, especially at the
moment as long as not all new top level domains are decided.

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> It would? mIRC can parse (and catch and save) URLs and email addresses with no problem. Perhaps Roland just simply needs to become more adept at programming.
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eep

Dec 27, 2000, 5:43am
Get it and see for yourself: http://mirc.co.uk

[View Quote] > Does mIRC require the protocol prefix to recognize URIs? That would be
> easy to implement I think.
>
> Or does it resolve the IP from names that could be an URL and mark only
> the valid ones? If it does that it would become a problem as the browser
> had to constantly resolve adresses, visiting crowded areas like AWGate
> would not be a good idea then.
>
> Implementing it "guess-based" is not a good idea, especially at the
> moment as long as not all new top level domains are decided.
>
> eep schrieb:

rolu

Dec 27, 2000, 1:04pm
[View Quote] Just make it easy to add new top level domains and there's no problem at
all. If you do it well, it should be a matter of seconds to add a bunch of
new TLD's to the URL recognize code. And if it would only recognize stuff
with at least one dot in it, ending on some TLD (and only in normal text,
not in names) it would recognize URL's better, too.

Trying to resolve IP's is a very bad idea as this can take several seconds,
especially if the URL doesn't exist. This would give a lot of unnecessary
lag.

Rolu

agent1

Dec 27, 2000, 2:06pm
Uhh... AW's "URL Parser" just looks for three periods separated by some alphanumeric character, I think :)

a.b.c gets turned into a URL...

-Agent1


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rolu

Dec 27, 2000, 3:35pm
[View Quote] Three alphanumeric non-empty strings with two dots inbetween, surrounded by
spaces. I know. What's your point?

Rolu

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agent1

Dec 27, 2000, 7:25pm
People are whining about TLDs not being recognised. It doesn't work based on TLDs, so what is the problem? The only real problem is that it changes names into links also...

I'd rather have it find more links that aren't valid, than not find a real one



-Agent1


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rolu

Dec 27, 2000, 8:39pm
[View Quote] My remark about TLD recognition was about an alternative to the current URL
recognition.

> I'd rather have it find more links that aren't valid, than not find a real
one

If you think so, then go for the TLD recognition. There are URL's that have
only one dot in them.

And what *real* URL's do you think won't be recognized by TLD recognition,
but will be recognized by the currend bla.bla.bla recognition?

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> -Agent1
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ananas

Dec 27, 2000, 10:28pm
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Rolu, you did not read what I wrote - I asked how mIRC does it, it
wasn't a recommendation for the AW browser

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tony56

Dec 27, 2000, 11:28pm
ask Khaled.

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"Freedom: That's What The Government Wants You To Believe!"
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rolu

Dec 28, 2000, 10:23am
[View Quote] You were talking about "how does mIRC do it" and "how can that apply to the
AWbrowser".

Some quotes:

"Does mIRC require the protocol prefix to recognize URIs? **That would be
easy to implement I think.**"

"Or does it resolve the IP from names that could be an URL and mark only
the valid ones? **If it does that it would become a problem as the browser
had to constantly resolve adresses**, **visiting crowded areas like AWGate**
would not be a good idea then."

You were clearly talking about the AWbrowser.

I then gave my opinion about how it should be done, also considering your
idea's.

You said:

"Implementing it "guess-based" is not a good idea, especially at the
moment as long as not all new top level domains are decided."

My answer:

"Just make it easy to add new top level domains and there's no problem at
all. If you do it well, it should be a matter of seconds to add a bunch of
new TLD's to the URL recognize code."

And another recommendation:

"And if it would only recognize stuff
with at least one dot in it, ending on some TLD (and only in normal text,
not in names) it would recognize URL's better, too."

And finally my answer to your IP resolving question:

"Trying to resolve IP's is a very bad idea as this can take several seconds,
especially if the URL doesn't exist. This would give a lot of unnecessary
lag."

"Rolu, you did not read what I wrote "

apparently you didn't even read it yourself?

Rolu

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> rolu schrieb:
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ananas

Dec 28, 2000, 5:46pm
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Sorry, you're right. Reading it again, my posting does not properly
express what I wanted to say.

My original thought was

"How does mIRC do it" and "That might not apply to the AWbrowser".

please accept my apology

Volker


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