Was wondering if someone could clarify something for me. I am using
Links are not active in a Compose window so that they can be more
easily edited.
I don't buy that. If I compose in text only, it does convert a url to be
clickable.
Try it, start a plain text message, type
www.cnn.com and hit space. Should
be clickable.
They will be active when you send, as you can test this
by saving it as a draft. It's also up to the recipient's email to
convert it. Most email clients do, but not all webmail clients do.
Woody, it's actually a little more confusing then this.
Outlook makes something clickable in your window when it's able to recognize
that you've finished typing a url format it recognizes.
For instance, in that message you've started, type
www.cnn.com and don't
do anything. It doesn't make it clickable yet. It won't until you close
the window and save it to drafts or hit send (assuming you've put an address
to send it to).
So, when it auto-inserts that signature, it isn't calculating that what just
got entered is a url or not. It's just inserting the text you wanted.
Now, the window that you read messages in, it does the same sort of thing,
it parses the text you've received and says 'this is a url, make it clickable'.
It can make mistakes. For instance, if you type in a full email address
(like (e-mail address removed)) and hit space, OL will look at what you just
typed and say 'Hey, I recognize that as an email address, lets make it a
mailto: url. You could also type (e-mail address removed) and it'll do
the same thing, even tho that's not really an email address. Sort of the
same way your cellphone can recognize a 10 digit string of numbers as a phone
number, regardless of whether it's a phone number or not.
Basically, it's working exactly like it should.
