[pmwiki-users] complicated

[J. Meijer]

Installing a new wiki. I went through loops to discover why on earth this wouldn't frame empty:

  >>rframe<<
  [[www.example.com | We have Example now!]]
  >><<


Seems perfectly legitimate. 

But whatever variant I tried, it didn't work. I was blaiming the frame,
since that's the 'advanced part'. In other installs I got customization
to transform www links into well-formed http:// equivalents so I wasn't
prepared for the link not generating any output at all.


I'd request: the left side of a link be interpreted as a link (if it
has 2 or more dots), but that's not the source of the confusion here
(and raises a (minor?) issue with future compatibility with
hierarchies). 

But the problem is really with the link that doesn't generate text at
all. I'd say this behaviour severely puts off (new or old) users. I'd
much prefer a crippled link to this. But if some target is needed, make
it a link (of the non-existent? type) to a page that explains what type of malformed links end up getting here, i.e. instructs to find the error. 

/jm








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