Using WLW with a wordpress.com blog, when I link to one of my previous posts, I don't like having the automatic internal pingback from myself.
As we can't use plugins on wordpress.com, I get around this by using relative urls.
I was thinking that it might be possible to have WLW recognise when a link is internal and automatically make the link relative. This of course would be an option rather than default behaviour!
Hi, relative links might not work when read from an RSS reader--the RSS spec doesn't give a official way to specify the base URL relative links should be resolved from, and I don't imagine WordPress will do the expansion for you.
So for anyone syndicating it would be a bad call alright.
I spent a few hours today writing a plugin which is basically an alternative to Insert -> Hyperlink. It creates a relative url from an absolute one. Couldn't get the dratted ImagePath referencing properly though!