Up until about yesterday, I was able to add markdown links to a local application within the description area of my Trello Cards.
The application uses a custom url protocol to produce a url like the following:
ttstudio://server:99//Product/dfct?recordID=3836
I've been adding these references to my trello cards in the markdown format:
[3836](ttstudio://server:99//Product/dfct?recordID=3836)
where they'd render as
<a href="ttstudio://server:99//Product/dfct?recordID=3836">3836</a>
I just went back to one of these cards and noticed that the href now renders as
<a href="#">3836</a>
Which completely disables the link.
Changing to a standard protocol (http, https, ftp) renders the href correctly, which makes me think they've recently disabled custom/non-standard url protocols.
Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know if this was changed on purpose and why? Is this documented anywhere that I can reference?
Their development board doesn't seem to indicate any changes were made, but I'm sure they don't post every change they make.
Best Answer
Non-standard protocols were disabled as a security precaution, to prevent the use of dangerous URIs (e.g.
javascript:) from being rendered.See https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js/pull/52 for a pull request with more details.