This sounds to me like it might be hideously complicated, but putting it in here - e.g. a link to [http://foo.com] gets an external link notification icon on its right on the English Wikipedia, and this should show up as appropriate.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33084
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37901
Applying the same CSS may be difficult, but internal vs external links should be rendered differently somehow.
Change 130769 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Style external links and their suggestions with the right color
Change 130769 merged by jenkins-bot:
Style external links and their suggestions with the right color
I'm not seeing this as entirely fixed. The redlink issue has been fixed but there are still other colour issues:
The raison d'etre of VE is that it is WYSIWYG while editing. Not having links in the right colour defeats this and can lead to mistakes.
(In reply to Spinningspark from comment #6)
I'm not seeing this as entirely fixed. The redlink issue has been fixed but
there are still other colour issues:
- Visited redlinks are not shown in the visited redlink colour, they are
shown in the redlink colour.
- External links are not shown in the external links colour, they are shown
in the internal links colour.
- Link icons are omitted: external, secure, pdf etc.
This caught my attention because external link icons have been working for me for a while. Turns out they work in Vector but not in Monobook. This appears to be a bug in Monobook, it's scoping link icon CSS to the wrong div (#bodyContent instead of #content).
Change 153740 had a related patch set uploaded by Catrope:
Scope external link styling rules to #content rather than #bodyContent
Change 153740 abandoned by Catrope:
Scope external link styling rules to #content rather than #bodyContent
Reason:
Yeah, that looks much better, thanks guys.