It doesn't prompt you for the link name, so you have to edit it yourself. Really annoying TBH. I don't know if this is a bug or a change.
If you put in http://www.google.com then you should see this added to your reply box: http://www.google.com the link name should be highlighted so you can just begin typing the link text/name...
a slight niggle being that if your not aware you should type the link name and skip to the end of it, its not immediately obvious which part to change or that you can change the name, unlike the previous instruction boxes.
It annoyed me so much I looked it up. Apparently the "new" method is the 'Industry Standard' so blame the industry and vBulletin; RTT and Jamie are innocent. That works easy-peasy for in-post links, but doesn't work as simply for a quote=<link> such as the above - some manual editing needed.
Can't win them all. I would like the http:// bit removed from the link box, though. It is usually already included in the copied URL.
It's high-lighted so is automagically deleted when you paste in the link on top of it. If you're typing in the link it saves a few keypresses. :shrugs: No problem with that. With this in-post editing I'm doing far more; I always forget I have the Firefox BBCode extension installed.
My IE7 doesn't have the 'http://' prefix already selected on opening the link box. Does this face look bovvered?
IE 7. Come to think of it, the forum editing tools do behave differently on my tablet than on my desktop PC. The Quote button starts a window on the desktop; on the tablet it does a more elegant set of quote tags with the cursor placed in the middle. I don't know why it should be different on either machine.
