I have only anecdotes about how well or how poorly linkification works in the real world. I am looking for a contact in Microsoft Office who might have some telemetry on linkification within Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc. (My small portion of the real world.) -----Original Message----- From: UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 8:09 AM To: ua-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] interesting UA issue discovered On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:00:00PM +0100, Chaals McCathie Nevile wrote:
This is a *really* common problem in linkification tools in general.
I continue to believe that the guidance should include warnings about how poorly linkification works. The scheme of the URI, the path portion, and the host portion (what we think of as the domain name) are each areas that cause trouble. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com