The discussion revolves around whether clicking internal links on Discourse should refresh the browser window. jamesmarkcook initially experienced a full window refresh when clicking internal links with full paths, but discovered that relative paths load content dynamically without a refresh. They wondered if it’s possible to have a nicely formatted preview while still loading content dynamically. codinghorror requested a demonstration, which jamesmarkcook provided, highlighting the difference between full path and relative path links. The issue was later addressed by eviltrout, who fixed the problem related to https usage with a commit on GitHub.
I was expecting clicking an internal link to load in the same way as everything else, but my browser is refreshed as if visiting an external link.
UPDATE
It’s because I used the full path (http://meta.discourse.com/t/sometopic) rather than the relative path. However, this is how the majority of non-technical people will use links on Discourse, so my question remains.
As a side note, the full path uses one box giving a nicely formatted preview, whereas the relative path provides just the link text. What am I doing wrong?
Using the second link, it loads the topic dynamically instead of refreshing the entire page. Is there a reason why we can’t have a preview of a topic and load it like the second link?