Bug 147784 - Poor choice of hyperlink categories: "Internet" and "email"
Summary: Poor choice of hyperlink categories: "Internet" and "email"
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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7.4.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium trivial
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: Hyperlink-Dialog
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Reported: 2022-03-05 17:46 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2022-03-07 18:49 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2022-03-05 17:46:21 UTC 
email is part of the Internet. That is, these days, email is exchanged almost exclusively over the Internet, using an Internet protocols (SMTP).

So, it is incorrect to distinguish between "Internet" links and "Mail" links.

It should probably be something like "URL" and "email", or "URL/Website" and "email".

Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fb9270b238cba4f36e595c5d7f4d85f6f3f18e1c
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Comment 1 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2022-03-06 21:56:44 UTC 
Rename Internet to Web and be done with it
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2022-03-06 22:41:25 UTC 
> Rename Internet to Web and be done with it

Nope. The options are currently HTTP and FTP. And actually, the options don't matter all that much and you can enter any URL you like.

Also, please confirm...
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2022-03-07 09:38:03 UTC 
"...URL, colloquially termed a web address" (Wikipedia)

"Web site"?
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2022-03-07 10:00:30 UTC 
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> "...URL, colloquially termed a web address" (Wikipedia)

Well, yes, but that's because the term "web" doesn't just mean HTML sites served by HTTP, but rather all content accessible on the Internet, by Internet protocols; see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

See:

https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/

> "Web site"?

RFC 1630 defines a URL as follows:

      For existing Internet access protocols, it is necessary in most
      cases to define the encoding of the access algorithm into
      something concise enough to be termed address.  URIs which refer
      to objects accessed with existing protocols are known as "Uniform
      Resource Locators" (URLs) and are listed here as used in WWW, but
      to be formally defined in a separate document.

So, not only a website. It could be an FTP site. It could be an rtsp media stream. It could be an IRC chatroom. etc.
Comment 5 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2022-03-07 15:18:08 UTC 
Eyal, we do not really want to be *that* pedantic, /me thinks. We want a nice, broad term that will not be complicated to retranslate, because remember that documentation and UI in all languages will need to be retouched
Comment 6 Daveo 2022-03-07 15:44:48 UTC 
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #5)
> Eyal, we do not really want to be *that* pedantic, /me thinks. We want a
> nice, broad term that will not be complicated to retranslate, because
> remember that documentation and UI in all languages will need to be retouched

Definite +1
My take NAB or WF.
Comment 7 Eyal Rozenberg 2022-03-07 18:49:58 UTC 
Bowing to majority opinion.