I too see this feature as highly desirable as I often end up duplicating tables and data in different bases as I want yet other tables to be seperate. To simplify this process would it be possible to set up a global base with only tables that would b...

I can confirm that if the field is set to URL the a record with a correct URL does indeed link to that URL correctly in Safari. I use Google Chrome as my go to browser and would like to be able to set this as a default in Airtable. Cheers Anton