{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/issues/12","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/issues/12/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/issues/12/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/issues/12/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/issues/12","id":66661692,"number":12,"title":"make raw \"source URLs\" into links? ","user":{"login":"JonathanReeve","id":1843676,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1843676?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve","html_url":"https://github.com/JonathanReeve","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"fc2929"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/labels/editorial-review","name":"editorial-review","color":"d4c5f9"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-04-06T17:39:58Z","updated_at":"2015-04-07T19:27:39Z","closed_at":null,"body":"It seems to me that URLs should generally be the targets of links, and not displayed as plain text in a web page. Compare the following examples: \r\n\r\n * to get started, visit [your Commons portfolio](http://commons.mla.org).\r\n * to get started, visit your Commons portfolio at http://commons.mla.org/portfolio\r\n * to get started, visit your Commons portfolio. The URL is: `http://commons.mla.org/portfolio`\r\n\r\nThe first of these examples seems the cleanest and most logical to me. An exception to this might be in Works Cited pages, where raw URLs are expected to appear. \r\n\r\nI propose changing entries like this: \r\n\r\n![selection_526](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1843676/7008560/f92ebd64-dc61-11e4-8062-28d33eb42161.png)\r\n\r\nwhere there is an unclickable, raw URL, into a cleaner, clickable title, like this: \r\n\r\n![selection_527](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1843676/7008583/1ef3a29e-dc62-11e4-8a7b-42f5aab6e7e4.png)\r\n\r\nThe URL will still exist, of course, it will just be moved from a raw plain text display to the target of a link."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/issues/comments/90706652","html_url":"https://github.com/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/issues/12#issuecomment-90706652","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/issues/12","id":90706652,"user":{"login":"JonathanReeve","id":1843676,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1843676?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve","html_url":"https://github.com/JonathanReeve","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JonathanReeve/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-07T19:27:39Z","updated_at":"2015-04-07T19:27:39Z","body":"Since I feel like the feedback on this one is generally favorable so far, but that this issue hasn't been decided yet, I've put [this change](https://github.com/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/compare/review-stage...mlaa:revise-links?expand=1) in the experimental feature branch [revise-links](https://github.com/mlaa/digitalpedagogy/tree/revise-links), and will provisionally put the test site on that branch. If anyone feels like this change is unwanted, though, I can easily revert the links to the previous style by changing the branch back to `review-stage`. "}}