I've removed the URL button from use altogether because of this, but would still prefer to have a simple way for users to insert a link (and also upload an image) without being able to see everything else along the way.

What does the orginal FCK editor use for inserting URLs? I assume it obviously isn't the DNN URL control, but they must use something? Is there a way that that could be switched in in-place of the Core control for a specific toolbar e.g. the Basic one?

Or perhaps the DNN URL control should get its own button that we could add to whatever toolbar we want?

Rob

I guess the primary usability improvement I'd be after is that when someone types a link, say into a forum post, that it becomes clickable for people reading the post.

I've noticed that the DNN quick-edit mode causes typed URLs to become links, but doing the same in the text editor does not. I don't think one really needs an external link browser for adding links to a post... there might be a switch in FCK that does it or perhaps this link-parsing ability could be added to the provider somehow?

Ideally it would have a configurable target as well, but that might be getting complicated.

I checked it on my site before I made that post and it did not convert the URL to a link, although it did do so when I used the edit-in-place mode.

I'll check it again right now... ok, it wasn't converting it because one has to continue typing after the URL to make it covert to a link. If one just types the URL and clicks submit, it doesn't.

I brought it up because it was causing me problems on more than one DNN-related forum recently. So I quickly checked it as above and then posted. Now I can't really say what was causing it on the other sites.. but there's a good chance I was doing the same thing... pasting a URL into a post and then submitting it, to find it wouldn't be converted.

oh well :)