On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:11:45 +0100, Edmon <edmon@registry.asia> wrote:
One of the tools (social media one) converted a domain we were posting in brackets: (http://ymi.asia) into a link for "ymi.asia)" included the close-bracket in the link... accidentally creating a dead link, we suspect they tried to update their previous script to allow anything after the dot until a space... should we look into any of our documents to flag this?..
This is a *really* common problem in linkification tools in general. Wherever we talk about linkification we should flag it. Ultimately the solution is heuristic, but the saving of 2-10 seconds each time someone does this probably adds up to many lifetimes each year... cheers -- Chaals is Charles McCathie Nevile find more at http://yandex.com