Adding a link to another website

[lukebarnard1]

At the moment HTML can be used to insert a link to content:
<a href='whatever.bla'>Link text</a>
Typing HTML should not be necessary. Typing in a link should automatically cause the content to become some editable object which includes a link and some text. This suggests that a file type is needed for external links, and a possible solution is to store it as JSON and have the JSON rendered in a special way once it reaches the client (i.e. the client would visit the site, generate a thumbnail and display it).