Feature Proposal: Remove question mark links

Motivation

1. The current question mark link hinders the flow of reading.

2. Many people learn about wikis through Wikipedia, and are inspired to deploy a wiki at the workplace.

Description and Documentation

Change TWiki's link style to: 1. remove the question mark link behind a wikiword, 2. use a color and style similar to Mediawiki to indicate a non-existing page. Hovering over a non existing page link should show a tooltip with the name of the topic followed by text "(this topic does not exist)".

Examples

• Link to Page One (not visited)
• Link to Page One (visited)
• Link to Page Two (does not exist)

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 31 Jan 2009

Discussion

This feature was suggested in Support.ChangeFormattingOfBumpyWord by StefanGachter.

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Jan 2009

I refined the style in above example:

• Web-standard blue and purple for link and visited, respectively
• Wine red for non-existing page
• dotted underlines, turning into solid line on hover
• Pastel background colors on hover, matching link colors

-- PeterThoeny - 09 Feb 2009

Created TWikibug:Item6189 to track this proposal

-- SopanShewale - 23 Feb 2009

This is now in TWiki-4.3.0. Some follow-up is required, tracked in TWikibug:Item6229.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-04-12