Very often, people will include some very good bookmarks to outside resources (or sometimes even inside resources) within their posts. I have a couple of comments about these links:

1) It would be beneficial to some users if the domain was automatically listed next to the link. At a glance, without a hover of the mouse, I could know where that link was heading to.

2) An option to determine the default destination for the link. For me, i prefer to have my links open in new browsers. If I could have a link popup into a new window (<a href="link" target="_new">), that would be cool. I assume other users might want to override this. Obviously, it would make sense to not allow users to use the target sub-function of the <a...> HTML command.

3) It might be cool and beneficial to have a "Link Harvester" to harvest all the links from within the body of the current page and have them as part of a Link Harvester Nodelet. Then, it would be cool if you could select some of these links, and be able to add them to a Link Catalogue of your own. This would be intended for links that lead to places outside the site (I found a good link to more info about HTML::TagFilter tonight, for example). Therefore, this would be above and beyond that of the personal nodelet.

--Coplan

Edit by tye

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