Comments on: A smarter solution to Mail’s hyperlink woes

By: Jamie Phelps

Jamie Phelps — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:05:18 +0000

Looks as though WordPress borked my tip. That should have said to enclose the url in < >

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:29:19 +0000

I discovered that with Safari 3 the script does not function anymore. Is there a solution already?

By: Dave Peterson

Dave Peterson — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:05:27 +0000

btw, ftm, this site is outstanding.

By: Dave Peterson

Dave Peterson — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:04:01 +0000

Not sure if this is the same issue – but my problem is with links within our office network.

I control-click the text, select Edit Link… and enter afp://192.168.1.2/Resource/Green Resources/5. Outreach/
…but, the link will only open Resource (and smb://, just doesn’t seem to work at all)

The second issue is the nuisance of having to enter the protocol and server IP address – the Microsoft hyperlink browsing is much friendlier.

Does anyone know how to create intra-network hyperlinks (is that the correct terminology – I mean not web links!) in OSX Mail?

By: Dan Warne

Dan Warne — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:59:32 +0000

Sorry for the blog spam :-)

I have created a campaign to encourage Apple to fix this irritating issue with Mail. My blog post has a cut-and-pasteable Apple Bug Report.

http://danwarne.com/the-campaign-to-convince-apple-to-fix-its-annoying-apple-mail-url-breakage-bug/#more-165

By: Rachel Blackman

Rachel Blackman — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:15:27 +0000

Wow, this got blogged around more than I expected, having hit TUAW as well, now. Anyway, I've tossed out a quick new release, v0.2, which has 'Shrink URL to Clipboard' added as discussed above. Have at. :)

By: Errol Sayre

Errol Sayre — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:12:50 +0000

Please note that this software’s installer puts the file in /System/Library/Services rather than /Library/Services or ~/Library/Services

This is not “good behavior” for a Mac OS X installer package.

By: rusto

rusto — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:04:26 +0000

Rats, although the symbols showed up ok in the live preview, the comment got schmargled anyway.

By: rusto

rusto — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:03:23 +0000

Jamie, I saw the hint to enclose long URLS in < and > (the greater than and less than symbols) in this macosxhints.com hint. (btw, I got the < and > to display in this comment by using the HTML ASCII codes for the symbols)

By: Rachel Blackman

Rachel Blackman — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:40:16 +0000

Hrm. It wouldn’t be terribly difficult to make a variant on the service (or rather, a ‘Shrink URL to Clipboard’ service in the same service bundle) that worked in read-only fields by saving the generated TinyURL to the clipboard, instead of pasting it back in to the origin textfield.

Would people find that useful? It’d be something like 6 minutes of work, literally.