With no URL entered into URL field, no link explaning a URL shows. Putting in a URL. Test continued.....

www.apple.com was entered, but URL link doesn't work. Trying http://www.apple.com.

The URL link is, unlike everything else, a actual link to the URL you entered. If you enter nothing, then it's smart enough to not make the link go to nothing.

Works great. Trying with Entry of 2 URLS, adding http://www.netscape.com

Gets confused. Will note "on url at a time" in Bug Writing guideline. TERRY QUESTION: This works fine. But had an eng ask if the actually URL within this field could automatically become link test (like in a mail send). This was more that one URL could be entered and both link test. And the URL link could go to an explanation of how this field works. Is this possible? Feasible at this point?

I don't understand the question. What does "automatically become link test (like in a mail send)" mean? And yes, this feature only allows one URL. You can always put more URLs in the description, if necessary.

Ya know how you can insert a URL in mail and HTML picks it up as a link and it is displayed as so by the receiver? I guess this guy wants to know if you can do that. The URL link works ok for me. Your call. If this worked this way, more than one link could be put in URL field and work, yes?

Well, no. It's difficult to make the displayed text both be a clickable URL and to also make it be editable. Which is, I think, what you're asking for. A more reasonable idea is to make any URL in the bug description be clickable. I might be willing to do that.

That would be cool. But up to you. Lot's on your plate. Would rather get hidden bugs work in so that we can put security, escalations and customer sensitive bugs into Bugzilla. I can bag this one for now. Thoughts?

OK, URLs within a bug's description are now clickable links.

This is a really cool feature. Much kudos to you, Terry! Could you add "=" to the characters that are used to recognise an email address? Currently mine is only made hot for the second part... eg: py8ieh=bugzilla@bath.ac.uk py8ieh=bugzilla-1999-03-24@bath.ac.uk ian.hickson@cableinet.co.uk (All those are valid e-mail addresses.)

This is a hard problem to get right, in general. You tempt me to just turn off email highlighting entirely. At any rate, it's not my code that is doing it. I'm using a perl CPAN module, HTML::FromText. The author of that module is Gareth Rees <garethr@cre.canon.co.uk>; I'll let you take it up with him. If he updates his code, give me a nudge and I'll upgrade to his latest version.

(I've taken the liberty of adding py8ieh=bugzilla@bath.ac.uk to the CC list of this bug; he should be sure to read my above comments.)

Well, I had other problems with the CPAN module (see bug 4272), so I have pulled this code into Bugzilla and rewrote it completely. And made it do "=" in an email address, while I was at it.

Excellent! Is there a "coolest new feature of the week" award for the mozilla project? This should definitely win it. Especially the bug #xyz links. They rock big time! Nice work. Hmm. I wonder how bug proof that is. bug 1234 bug 9999 see #666 bug 12.4 bug #1 bugs 1234, 5678, and 9012 bug 01234 1. nasty bug; 2. bug bug. bug 00001 see also bug 12, bug 13. bug1234.

1. Sorry about the spam with this bug 2. This is the only way I think I can break the bug highlighting code. I think we can probably live with this very minor bug 3. It's not even really a bug -- the author should ensure that sentences are correctly delimited with correct punctuation. 4. I am thus verifying this bug.

Moving to Bugzilla product