Element-web: Links ending in dot are not linkified correctly

[Rares95]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.T.O.M.

Take this link for example. The linkifier doesn't count the last dot as part of the link on Desktop at least

[odiferousmint]

They are not linkified here either for a reason. I am not sure of a good solution. Example: Foo: https://bar.baz.. In this case the URL would be https://bar.baz., it becomes part of the URL. Two workarounds for this: https://bar.baz ., or reword the sentence so that the dot is not at the end.

What solution would be the best of both worlds? We already have the formatter and we could probably make links and send them as-is (linkified) while hiding the implementation details, but I am not sure that is the way to go. Heck, I brought up how I cannot write and send - because it gets formatted automatically and turns it into an element of a list which, IMO, is problematic. I would love to have the option to turn that off.

[t3chguy]

because it gets formatted automatically and turns it into an element of a list which, IMO, is problematic. I would love to have the option to turn that off.

Completely unrelated to this issue.

This issue about linkification which happens on receipt

Markdown parsing (commonmark) happens on send and you can use /plain to not have it applied.

[t3chguy]

On Microsoft Edge for Windows 10 it works fine. On Firefox Focus or Edge on Android it does not

Can you show an example of what you mean? Screenshots are great.

[odiferousmint]

Completely unrelated to this issue.

Not to my half-assed proposal though. :P That was just an example, but my point was that it is definitely doable to do links that way. As far as Markdown parsing is concerned, I definitely would like to have an option to disable it altogether so I will not have to type /plain all the time. :P (Yes, this is unrelated, not sure if the issue is still opened or not.)

But yeah, I am not sure if this is going to work. Currently , and . and perhaps other special characters are not considered as being part of the URL, which is the best way to go, IMO. My half-assed solution was to be able to insert links and send them as-is, with those special characters. So by default (without using the formatter), https://foobar. would send https://foobar, but with the formatter it would send https://foobar..

I hope it makes sense, I am exhausted.

[t3chguy]

You can use the commonmark URL syntax <URL> which works with trailing dots:

[odiferousmint]

Yup, that is what I had in mind. Seems like it is implemented!

[t3chguy]

Closing as a non-issue.
Often people put a link at the end of a sentence and would hate for every link to be broken by the appended .

This is typical behaviour elsewhere such as here on github too. If you want to explicitly mark the dot as part of the link you can either use link [text](url) syntax or use the explicit URL <url> syntax