Edge makes it more work to paste links. For IE I wrote a program I could use to get links ("A" tags) for web sites but that is not so easy to do with Edge.
In the Feedback Hub application I submitted a suggestion (called "Paste HTML fragment with a link tag when pasting from address bar") that in Edge, when we do a copy in the address bar, a HTML fragment also be pasted with an "A"
tag with the address as the href and the title as the text. When I say title I mean what we get when we click the star to make a bookmark; that does not always have a title but usually it does. Doesn't that make sense? Do you agree that will help when we want
to provide a link in a post?
As a workaround I notice that there is a Share button and when we click it there is a Copy link button but the Copy link button does not copy a link, it only copies the address. There is also a Clipboard button that almost does what I am suggesting; it copies
the title and the address but it does not make that into a link. So I decided to write a program that converts that into a real link but I was getting frustrating results. Then I noticed that lines end with a LFCR instead of a CRLF. It is as if Microsoft just
has to do something wrong. So I submitted feedback ("Edge Share Clipboard uses LFCR instead of CRLF") about the problem.
So how is this relevant to the MSDN forums? I am talking about how to make it as easy as possible to post links. I hope that is relevant enough. You can vote for the feedback items in the Feedback Hub if you agree.
Sam Hobbs
SimpleSamples.Info
