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I just realized that I do this by habit so maybe that's why I never see the problem. I'd just as well see all clicks go to new tabs. It's just as easy to hit
by mchahn 11y ago
I just realized that I do this by habit so maybe that's why I never see the problem. I'd just as well see all clicks go to new tabs. It's just as easy to hit ctrl-W as it is to hit backspace.
- nate 11y agoThat's really interesting. It's like we've all been conditioned to just have unconscious clicking patterns to deal with this headache. Opening up new tabs for things was definitely an easy solution on the table. But that's a pretty uncommon design pattern, and one that would probably drive our users nuts. Back button basically goes away as a habit, and then they'd have to learn that just for this app they need new muscle memory of ctrl+w. But yeah, definitely a design choice one could make.
- christianmann 11y agoFor that reason, I'd prefer to see /no/ clicks go to new tabs by default, and let the user decide.
- theseatoms 11y agoThis must be a configurable setting within most browsers...