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[Zaeranos]

Zaeranos

Broken hyperlinks

Well I noticed that lately a number of hyperlinks are broken. For example:

One of the things I look for in a game is a graphical style that looks great and fits the game. Naturally, this game would take advantage of this. I would describe it, but I found a picture that sums it up rather well. Click here. A somber look and feel = win.

When I click on this I get first "Address not found". This is due to http//"....." being around the URL. When I remove that end up at the HTTP page of wikipedia. The only way I can view the site is, when I click on quote and copy the URL without the http://.

If this was a single occurrence, it wouldn't be a problem, but it almost happens every time. I don't know if anyone had mentioned this already, but I thought maybe I should point this out.

PS: I use the latest Firefox release.

[Drewdelz]

Drewdelz

Re: Broken hyperlinks

I've seen that error on plenty of forums, I think it has to do with putting quotes around your hyperlink.
If you do, it adds another http outside of the link's quotes. For example:

This:

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[url="http://www.zfgc.com/"]link[/url]Turns into:
link

Whereas this:

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[url=http://www.zfgc.com/]link[/url]Turns into:
link

[Bludleef]

Bludleef

Re: Broken hyperlinks

I've seen that error on plenty of forums, I think it has to do with putting quotes around your hyperlink.
If you do, it adds another http outside of the link's quotes. For example:

This:

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[url="http://www.zfgc.com/"]link[/url]Turns into:
link

Whereas this:

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[url=http://www.zfgc.com/]link[/url]Turns into:
link

exactly when using the bbc code for url no quotation marks are needed.

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[Zaeranos]

Zaeranos

Re: Broken hyperlinks

OK, so would someone make that clear to everyone, because many people make that mistake.

[Windy]

Windy

Re: Broken hyperlinks

Actually, there are only a few people who actually do it, and in most cases, it's not because they don't know how to do it, as they have been shown to do it correctly in the past, it's just that they either do it by mistake or they've copied bbcode from some other location that does use quotes or just some other unknown reason.

[DJvenom]

DJvenom

Re: Broken hyperlinks

as long as they aren't official "forum-breaking" hyperlinks that are broken, it's not worth fussing over. Serves the people right for not knowing how to use bbcode :] NO TRAFFIC FOR YOU.

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