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dw_suggestions2010-03-18 05:28 pm
Twitter Style User Addressing
Title:
Twitter Style User Addressing
Area:
html formatting
Summary:
It would be convenient and fairly typical of the modern Internet to be able to refer to accounts using a nice shorthand. I propose using the Twitter style: @mark would be the equivalent of <user name="mark">.
Description:
Writing HTML isn't something that comes naturally to many people. Twitter's style of addressing has been used for many years in email (they certainly didn't make it up) and is now gaining broad acceptance as a modern way of referring to other user accounts.
Given that, I think that it would be awesome to type @denise and have it show up as if I had typed <user name="denise">.
Furthermore, I think that it would be great to be able to easily refer to other people on other domains. For example, I think @news.lj would be easier to type than <user name="news" site="livejournal.com">. Even if we had to type @news.livejournal.com that's a lot easier to type than remembering the HTML and exactly what to put in it.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
66 (40.5%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
22 (13.5%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
57 (35.0%)
(I have no opinion)
14 (8.6%)
(Other: please comment)
4 (2.5%)
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