I had converted a couple URLs to relative references on
http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=V3FunctionalSpecs.
Those changes got reverted by someone... for some reason.
I sat down to try to figure out, "Why?" and did come up with two good
reasons for the use of explicit urls...
1. An explicit URL gets decorated with the little red 'eject' arrow.
2. Relative page references are getting styled to look exactly like the
text that surrounds them... so you cannot tell that a word or phrase is
a link unless you mouse over it AND notice that the pointer changes to
the little hand... This may be an 'only in a table' problem.
vbk
Bill Shannon wrote:
> Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine wrote on 05/20/2010 08:08 AM:
>> In the likely event of a move of the Wiki to another infrastructure,
>> I'd like to encourage folks to use relative links in their pages. i.e. :
>> [ text | PageName]
>> rather than :
>> [ text | http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=PageName]
>>
>> Otherwise after the move, the links will keep pointing back to the
>> older page.
>> I took the liberty of updating a few pages with this change.
>
> I agree, but it's been *very* hard to train people to do that.
>
> Certainly there must be a way to do a batch edit operation to fix
> these links?
>
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