No default for links in WYSWYG

[matt]

The links popup in the WYSIWYG should have ​http:// in there by default, because it is very common for people to put in 'www.example.com' and then wonder why all their links go to their own site.

[abhay]

I think that putting in http:// is a bit limited. I think a notice on the textbox's caption saying that the user should put in a complete URI should suffice as links can be of any kind of resource (http, ftp, irc, etc.).

[matt]

​http:// is going to be the case 99.9% of the time, and people who link to things other than http aren't the same people who need this help.

[MichaelH]

abhay's comment reminded me that if ​http:// is put there as the default, it should be 'selected' (like it is in the link Quicktag).

[davidhouse]

How about just prepending http:// to the URL if the first section of the URL (everything up to the first /) contains a '.' followed by a TLD? If someone types in https://something/etc we can just leave it as it is.

[andy]

Attached patch to insert '​http://' for new links.

[ryan]

(In [4597]) Pre-fill ​http:// when inserting new links. Props andy. fixes #2579