The Ping Plan

[David J. Weller-Fahy]

* John Gruber <gruber at fedora.net> [2004-04-30 10:20 -0800]:
> [snips]
>
> > I don't see why any of these wouldn't work; other than the first,
> > they're all pretty unambiguous.
>
> Actually, linking URLs without angle-bracket delimiters is slightly
> ambiguous. The main problem is with punctuation:
>
>     Just go to http://example.com/foo.
>
> But I suppose a reasonable guess can be made that the last character
> of a URL shouldn't be in the class [.,;].
>
> This is a somewhat common request, so I'll probably hook it up.

Doesn't that interpret the following:

	Just go to http://www.example.com.

as:

	Just go to <a href="http://www.example.com">http://www.example.com</a>.

instead of:

	Just go to <a href="http://www.example.com.">http://www.example.com.</a>

As it should be interpreted?

2 cents,
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dave [ please don't CC me ]