URLs doesn't get clickable on description

[AntoineTurmel]

When you put a link on a description (either plain or using DokuWiki syntax), the link show up but is not clickable.

[selfthinker]

I'm not sure that is a bad thing...

[AntoineTurmel]

Well the user can still put links after plugin template, but sometimes you may wants to mentions in description that this plugin connect to this website giving a link to it..

[selfthinker]

In general it's always a good idea to have data in it's purest form. If we allow links in the description, it's data with "sub data". It also depends on what you might want to do with the description. In the current situation there won't be any problem. But what if you might want to link the description somewhere (in the plugin table or in one of the "pluginnews" boxes)? You wouldn't have the freedom to do that.

The advantages of allowing links might outweigh that. But you can never be sure what people might want to do with that data and at least we should think about its possible implications.

[AntoineTurmel]

Ok, so maybe we can add an option to parse the description for links and render them with a <a href> tag ? So we can enable this parse by option either on an entry, table, pluginnews ?

[splitbrain]

No having entries that behave differently makes the problem @selfthinker described even worse.

Supporting links would either require to parse them ourselves or to run a whole new parser/renderer process on the description which is not a good idea performance wise.

[HakanS]

IMHO we should follow "It's better when it's simple"

Plugin/template authors should use their few words of description to describe features of the extension. Sometimes mentioning "WikiPedia" or something similar conveys a lot of information but I don't think a link is necessary. Naturally they should pay proper credit on the extension homepage but not in the description.

Issue #25 and #27 are more useful to our community

[Klap-in]

summary: won't implement because simpler text is better and performance wise.