Agree with the rejection. The same link in different contexts can be as either external or local. So that is a business of UA/renderer to mark it properly. CS

Agree with the rejection. The same link in different contexts can be as either external or local. So that is a business of UA/renderer to mark it properly. CSS is quite adequate for that (https://davidwalsh.name/external-links-css https://davidwalsh.name/external-links-css) and the image (or whatever author/UA decided to use) can go inline in CSS itself.