Forum Discussion
Announcing a new way to paste URLs, Link format!
Thanks, MissyQ!
Just a head's up to everyone that we're just beginning the rollout so you may not see it in your Canary channel just yet. It will take a few days to roll out completely as we want to make sure everything is working properly as it rolls out.
Once you see the new Link format when you paste, please let us know how it works (or doesn't) for you! We are listening 🙂
On behalf of the team working to simplify pasting of links, Thank You!
Jared
JaredB81 I just encountered a new complication. I copied a link to a bookmark within a Wikipedia page. The URL of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewYork%E2%80%93Presbyterian_Hospital#Weill_Cornell_Medical_Center when pasted as a link appears as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewYork%E2%80%93Presbyterian_Hospital#Weill_Cornell_Medical_Center which drops the visual indication that it is to a bookmark.
Rich
- Thanks, Rich. Good catch on the bookmark indicator.
Also, I read your format questions above. I'll talk to the dev team. Thanks again for the feedback!
JaredB81 Will there be an option to copy non-ASCII URLs as displayed in the address bar instead of URL encoded? For example, https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC vs. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/مايكروسوفت_إيدج. The former is unreadable while the latter is not, assuming you know the language.
Thanks, rshupak. Good question! In our research, we actually looked at this (and other URL param parsing/culling options). We found that most people had some concerns about the URL content being manipulated. Though we haven't ruled it out as a possibility, it's not our initial focus.
Your feedback is exactly the kind of thing we're looking for, to help make the case to explore that line of improvement and simplification. If we see enough interest in this from this Insider forum, from the feedback tool within Edge, etc. we will definitely consider it.Thanks again for the feedback!
