leave the title attribute as-is

May 4, 2006 4:25 PM

The amazon link-rewriting thingie seems to strip out title="foo" attributes from <a> tags which link to amazon. Would it be possible to get it to leave the title attribute as-is? I would like to (manually) add a warning to amazon links, like title="(amazon link)" or similar.
posted by whir to Bugs at 4:25 PM (7 comments total)

Man, I like the K5 code request 'system' better: If you can code it, it'll get added to scoop and you can put it on your own site.

My Little Pony, My Little Pony
Isn't the world a lovely place
My Little Pony, My Little Pony
Everywhere you go, a smiling face
Running and skipping; merrily tripping
Watching the morning unfold
My Little Pony, My Little Pony
What does the future hold?
posted by tiamat at 6:09 PM on May 4, 2006

Wait... merrily tripping?

My little pony and its bright colors and crazy ass ponies makes sooo much more sense now.
posted by twiggy at 6:52 PM on May 4, 2006

yes, matt will be recoding the amazon site next week.
posted by quonsar at 7:45 PM on May 4, 2006

Er, not sure if you're serious, quosar, but I was talking about links from Metafilter to Amazon, which Mefi rewrites to kick nickels Matt's way (cf this).
posted by whir at 8:00 PM on May 4, 2006

"... not sure if you're serious, quosar ..."

You can always be sure quonsar is not serious.

Unless he is.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:30 AM on May 5, 2006

I would like to (manually) add a warning to amazon links

Definitely a top priority! (???) But howabout just typing [amazon link] in plain text after the link?
posted by Mid at 6:37 AM on May 5, 2006

I'll go first ...
posted by intermod at 11:04 AM on May 6, 2006