Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/External links/reply (3)

Fram,

You're totally right that that malfunction is a recent bug (specifically, bug 57416), and clearly shouldn't be happening - our apologies for that not being fixed yet.

However I disagree that, absent this bug, adding two separate link workflows which are indistinguishable to the user (and you'd better believe we'd have a request within days to magically transition between the two if needed). Our job is to make things simpler, not more complex. The whole point of VisualEditor is that the arbitrary mechanism by which you make a link, be it one, two or twenty square brackets, is invisible to the user. Rules that are yet more complex, like different kinds of link, are certainly not going to be exposed to the user unless there's a good reason for it, and I'm not aware of one right now.

J.