The development of Ascension is making great progress. While searching for an easy way to achieve advanced hyperlink detection, I discovered the AutoHyperlinks framework. It is part of the Adium project, but (unlike Adium) BSD-licensed. This allows usage even for commercial applications. I created a slightly modified lightweight variant of the framework, which I added to Ascension’s build phase. Cocoa coders should really take a look, the detection capabilities are awesome and implementation is quite easy. Click on the picture to see a non-scaled variant of the screenshot showing the final URL / URI detection scheme of Ascension.