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Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#13631 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)

XFN rel Field Read-Only in 3.0B2 and RC1

Reported by: cmarshall's profile cmarshall Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 3.0
Component: Administration Keywords: xfn rel
Focuses: Cc:

Description

'm using rel="external" to flag external links.

However, the XFN stuff limits the available rel choices to social media tags; which are worthless to me.

I would like to either add "external" as a choice, or have the ability to directly edit the rel.

Another option is the ability to assign a class to the link.

I'm told this is a bug. I notices a similar issue in ticket 12551 (closed) and 2501(closed)

However, this is unacceptable. You need to be able to add some way to mark a link as "external." It can be using rel (considered the "proper" way), or via a class.

This is a very minor issue. I am working around it by using "me," and assigning the "external" style to that (yuck).

Change History (2)

#1 @nacin
14 years ago

  • Milestone 3.0 deleted
  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from new to closed

This was changed slightly from 2.9 in #12551. That said, this is not a regression.

In non-JS, we do not disable the field, as the checkboxes/radio buttons don't work server-side. (We probably should hide the field and make them work server-side but I'm not too concerned about that.) This is unchanged in 3.0.

With JavaScript enabled, we previously tracked the text field on the keyup event and prevented any input. Clearly, that's ineffective and confusing to people who believe you should be able to enter any data, so the JS now just disables the field. That's what changed via #12551.

This said, you could certainly disable the XFN JS and do what you wish. Additionally, I imagine there are filters that you could use to add the "external", perhaps even by using a link category called "external" to then track which links should get "external" via a fitler.

Closing as wontfix.

#2 @cmarshall
14 years ago

OK. I can work with that. I'll add a filter function for it. Bit of a hack, but I've had to do worse.

Thanks.

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