yes ofc but that was not my point. My point is that we never use leading dots/links relative to spaces.
Yes except that including pages cross-wiki is a lot less used than including pages from the same wiki.
This looks pretty theoretical since we’ve never had this issue on xwiki.org over 14 years. And we have done the use cases you mention a lot: move between wikis, copy to another location, move/rename.
Actually I’d say that we get even less problems with absolute links than relative ones since if you move a page having relative links and you don’t move these pages too then you’re going to break the links, which doesn’t happen when you use absolute links.
So my POV (backed by 14 years of experience on xwiki.org) is that it’s the opposite to what you say: there are usually more benefits to using absolute links than relative ones.
I don’t remember that. We introduced the concept but never used it ourselves. And I don’t know a single occasion where we’ve used it for real and with an advantage. For me it’s enough to note that the most knowledgeable xwiki users (us) don’t use relative links at all to question the supposed advantage of them. I can see several problems with them (including this thread) but very few real benefits. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have support for relative links but that their need/usage is marginal and I don’t think we should use them for WYSIWYG (at least by default). At the very minimum I’d question that, to make sure it’s a good idea.
We should ofc fix the Menu app too.