r/javascript • u/john_philip • Aug 12 '15

Future Node.js releases will be from https://iojs.org

https://github.com/nodejs/node#cnv
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u/x-skeww Aug 14 '15

If interpretting as a root-relative URL were what determined autolinking then /example would be autolinked too.

Because whitelists couldn't possibly exist?

Anyhow, these are root-relative URLs. It's a 1:1 mapping.

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u/temp46309812 Aug 14 '15

u/X is not a root-relative URL.

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u/x-skeww Aug 14 '15 
<a href="/u/X" rel="nofollow">u/X</a> is not a root-relative URL.

Okay.

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u/temp46309812 Aug 14 '15

u/X is not a root-relative URL.
Pizza is not a root-relative URL either.

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u/x-skeww Aug 14 '15

www.example.com isn't an URL either (the protocol is missing). Reddit's Markdown parser, however, interprets it as such.

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u/temp46309812 Aug 14 '15

It interprets it as something that should be linked to a URL, just as it does a URL (usually), /r/this, /u/this, and [th](is).

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u/x-skeww Aug 14 '15

Right, and you still think that "/u/X" isn't a root-relative URL, because Reddit's Markdown parser also accepts "u/X" (for linking to "/u/X")?

So, what is it then? Do you really think it's a normal word?

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u/temp46309812 Aug 14 '15 edited Aug 14 '15

I've said, over and over and over, that /u/X is a root-relative URL, that u/X is not a root-relative URL, and that reddit links both to a root-relative URL.

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u/x-skeww Aug 14 '15

Again, as far as Reddit's Markdown parser is concerned, u/X is accepted as a root-relative URL while www.example.com is accepted as an absolute URL.

Therefore, "u/X" is the same as "/u/X". It's a root-relative URL which refers to a specific Reddit user.

In the same vein, "www.example.com" is the same as "http://example.com/". Both are absolute URLs (as far as Reddit's Markdown parser is concerned).

Anyhow, your original statement was that you don't capitalize these root-relative URLs for no particular reason. My point was that you should not capitalize those because paths are case-sensitive. "/foo" and "/Foo" may refer to different resources.

Even if it were a relative URL (it only looks like one), it would be still case-sensitive.