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Why not adding target=“_blank” to HN links by default?
- notorandit 4y agoI would really like this to happen as I often forget to "open in a new tab" those interesting links and then have to go back and do it.
- fullofdev 4y agoIt's a matter of UX, people can choose if they want to read/open the web on the same tab or on the other tab
- sovok_x 4y agoIt's like 3 or so lines in userscript if you really need it. In general case most modern browsers allow an alternate way of opening a tab in background, e.g. middle mouse button click, so this gives users a method of control over what they want hyperlinks to do, but not the other way as there's no easy way to undo target=_blank. It's usually considered bad UX practice to do so by default unless clicking a hyperlink can cause irreversible state change like in some cases of autopaging.
- NickRandom 4y ago<sigh> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15054636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15054636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10079388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10079388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8403764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8403764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2927091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2927091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183332 I semi-appologise for the sigh and the snark and I'll take the downvotes as being merited for my tone but the number of times I see posts like this (aka "Why Doesn't HN do xyz?") I cry a little inside. There is a search box at the bottom of each page (which is what I used to provide the links above rather than some super-human feat of search skills) and that search box should be the first port of call for any user that feels the need to post a 'why does HN do / not do...' i.m.o.
- verdverm 4y agoctrl + click is effectively that