Links in text files - how to make them clickable?
I have a memory from somewhere that one can make URLs in text files 'clickable' when viewing the text file in a browser. I even have a sample file:- http://home.isbd.net/chris/xxx.txt which I'm sure I remember trying once and being surprised when it worked. (I think I maybe had to double click the link) However I can't make this work now, did I imagine it or can someone point me at what I need - e.g. is it a Firefox extension? -- Chris Green
On Thursday 01 March 2007 15:22, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
I have a memory from somewhere that one can make URLs in text files 'clickable' when viewing the text file in a browser. I even have a sample file:- http://home.isbd.net/chris/xxx.txt which I'm sure I remember trying once and being surprised when it worked. (I think I maybe had to double click the link)
However I can't make this work now, did I imagine it or can someone point me at what I need - e.g. is it a Firefox extension?
That would just be browser dependent behaviour, you can't encode any special instructions in a plain text file which turn URLs into hyperlinks. Never heard of an ff extension which does this, though there's always copy and paste ;-) Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:55:09PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2007 15:22, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
I have a memory from somewhere that one can make URLs in text files 'clickable' when viewing the text file in a browser. I even have a sample file:- http://home.isbd.net/chris/xxx.txt which I'm sure I remember trying once and being surprised when it worked. (I think I maybe had to double click the link)
However I can't make this work now, did I imagine it or can someone point me at what I need - e.g. is it a Firefox extension?
That would just be browser dependent behaviour, you can't encode any special instructions in a plain text file which turn URLs into hyperlinks.
Yes, I realise it's up to the browser.
Never heard of an ff extension which does this, though there's always copy and paste ;-)
I have found the 'Linkification' extension for Firefox which actually does rather more than I want, URLs (like the above one) actually get changed to the standard browser link colour and a single click will go to the link. I don't remember my original thing being an extension but Linkification will do. -- Chris Green
Eur Ing Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
I have a memory from somewhere that one can make URLs in text files 'clickable' when viewing the text file in a browser. I even have a sample file:- http://home.isbd.net/chris/xxx.txt which I'm sure I remember trying once and being surprised when it worked. (I think I maybe had to double click the link)
In Firefox-based browsers, double-left-click, then middle-click. It's actually just copy-paste and taking advantage of what Firefox does if you paste a URL into the display area. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, trainer, koha dev, online shop maker, GNU/Linux, debian, gobo, gnustep, mailing lists. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:37:19AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Eur Ing Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
I have a memory from somewhere that one can make URLs in text files 'clickable' when viewing the text file in a browser. I even have a sample file:- http://home.isbd.net/chris/xxx.txt which I'm sure I remember trying once and being surprised when it worked. (I think I maybe had to double click the link)
In Firefox-based browsers, double-left-click, then middle-click.
It's actually just copy-paste and taking advantage of what Firefox does if you paste a URL into the display area.
Hope that helps,
Thanks, yes, maybe that was it. I think the Linkification extension is better still but the above is worth remembering. -- Chris Green
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