Can't see URLs in rendered Markdown cells; linkification fails

[westurner]

Description

Markdown rendering of bare URLs https://example.org/ and URLs without anchor text [](https://example.org/ has breakingly changed.

When I paste the below text into a Markdown cell in JupyterLite, (1) it does not linkify the first two URLs; and (2) I can't see the text of the second two URLs as Markdown works in all other implementations.

Is there a way to turn off the new hover cards and make pasting URLs into Markdown cells result in <a hrefs again?

Reproduce

1. Create a Markdown cell with the following text and Ctrl-Enter:

   
   - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis
   - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance

Expected behavior

When I paste a bare URL in Markdown, I should be able to read the full URL in the rendered HTML (without hovering over each link, which is impossible on mobile and not Accessible)

Context

• JupyterLite version: 0.2.3
• Operating System and version:
• Browser and version: FF,

Browser Output

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[jtpio]

Thanks @westurner for the report.

Could it be an issue with jupyterlab-myst?

The latest version of the demo does not include jupyterlab-myst anymore, because there were some issues with the rendering of the Mermaid diagram: https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite/pull/1263

And it seems to be behaving fine:

[westurner]

Looks like it works in a Private Window but not with whatever I have cached.

What it did before I Shift-Ctrl-R refreshed:

What is does now:

• [ ] Do other users need to Shift-Ctrl-R refresh to get the latest behavior?
• [ ] BUG: new markdown: fix links without anchor text:
  • IIUC, a url like this [](https://a.org/) should and used to be rendered like this https://a.org/, but it's rendering as empty string with no link to click now