Github flavoured markdown doesn't support Javascript links. (for bookmarklets)

[shalecraig]

I have a readme that I want to have a link for a bookmarklet to in. The link starts with javascript:.....

Due to this, github doesn't render the link, and instead renders it as a link to github.com

Edit (6 years later)

I under-estimated the difficulty of using github pages. You should probably use that.

Just encountered this as well. Tried escaping all brackets in the link, and the page is rendered correctly visually, but there is no "href" attribute given to the A tag.

[trshafer]

+1

[mourner]

+1

[kuddl]

Still needed
+1

[austinhappel]

+1

[tomwolber]

+1, Please

[shalecraig]

I was thinking about it - this is done to prevent sneaky XSS includes in Github. I'm going to close this issue.

[bojanbjelic]

+1
even if it's a xss prevention mechanism, it's up to the user to know if should click on a javascript link

[gnclmorais]

+1
Just show some visual warning next to it, some icon or something similar.

[crccheck]

Has anyone found an alternative to sharing bookmarklets in a github wiki?

[benkeen]

+1