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Why not simply have two CSS files? One would show the links in the same style as the main text, one would show the links so they can be explored.

A simple button next to each post and you could choose depending on your wants.

(Note: I am not a 1337 haX0r, so I could also be very dumb.)

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I played around with this eight years ago ( http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/hypertext/fragment... ) and it wasn't hard then (no Javascript either). In fact, I used four different options of displaying links. No guarantees on the external links working any more though ...

Good idea, and it would also need a little bit of Javascript. But wouldn't be a problem re-read/scan the text trying to find what became linked?

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