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Download of the Day: Make Link

Imagine my surprise and delight yesterday when I found out that one of my favourite blogs, Lifehacker, had featured my very own Make Link Firefox extension as its Download of the Day.

My joy was tempered somewhat by the fact that I've always been a little bit ashamed of the quality of that extension. I wrote it quickly and a long time ago so all I see when I look at it are flaws. The few comments on the site and by email inspired me to put a little bit of effort into polishing it up somewhat. The result is Version 2.1, which addresses three of the more widely reported bugs and feature requests.

Comments:
Fri, 30th Mar 2007 (07:48)

Hi - just a brief one here, with one observation and one suggestion (it's a simple one, honest!)

Observation: Firefox just updated Make Link to 3.0 (amazing innit - even before I can find any mention of 3.0 on your own site!) Looks pretty. And it works, I just tried it. With the added / customized format suggested below.

Suggestion: include Markdown in the standard Make Link formats, thusly: [%text%](%url% "%text%") FYI, Markdown is an amazingly simplified and 100% XHTML compliant text-to-HTML conversion tool, which is fairly widely used on blogs. Info on Markdown: daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ (just add the http colon slash slash cuz if I do it your blog thinks I'm spamming)

Otherwise - THANK YOU for an amazingly helpful extension!!!

by nv1962
Fri, 30th Mar 2007 (14:47)

Good idea. I'll add Markdown to the defaults in the next version.

by Rory

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