. . ., but I dont really see how customized link types on a per user basis can be made to work, nor why they should be made to work.

I make a post that includes a foobar:// link. $reader comes along and wants to read it. The Everything Engine retrieves the text I wrote and post-processes it to generate HTML. It sees [foobar://abcd|ABCD]. The [] brackets say "Go look up a linker method". It does so, checking my personal linkers first. It sees the foobar:// definition and creates a href from it. EE then goes ahead and displays the HTML.

From $reader's perspective, he has no idea whether or not I did [http://foobar.com?q=abcd|ABCD] or [foobar://abcd|ABCD]. All $reader knows is that s/he can click on the link, be sent to the useful page at foobar.com, and be englightened.

From my perspective, since I link to foobar.com in over half my posts, my PM experience is improved. And, when I decide to improve how I like to foobar.com, I can change my definition and the EE will go ahead and change the href it generates (if my understand of the EE is correct).

This makes things like the change from www.perldoc.com to perldoc.perldrunks.org to perldoc.perl.org much easier to manage.

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In reply to Re^9: Personalizing the linkers (happen) by dragonchild
in thread Personalizing the linkers by dragonchild

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