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Another one is hijcking ctrl+click (open in the new tab) into mere click (open here). I am shocked how many ecommerce sites do this.

by blfr 6mo ago

myself248 6mo ago
And many of them don't even have a real click action, that I can find. I can't even right-click and manually pick "open in new tab", because the browser doesn't recognize what I'm clicking on as a link. I agree, ecommerce sites are the place that I most often want to open several items in tabs and decide between them, and the place this function is most often blocked! I wish I could scream at the jerk who implemented this, but that jerk is not among the options of screamable people.
- fragmede 6mo ago
  > the browser doesn't recognize what I'm clicking on as a link. It's entirely possible the browser itself does, but that the site's JavaScript is (also) overriding the right click handler. There's browser extensions to override their override but having to do that is stupid.
  - myself248 6mo ago
    I've installed one of those and it doesn't seem to help in the ecommerce case.
  - kevincox 6mo ago
    It's possible but this seems to be quite rare. In my experience it is always just that they think a div with an onclick handler is the same thing as a link.
  - mghackerlady 6mo ago
    why did we even allow this to be overridden in the first place? if you genuinely need that much control, stop shipping a webapp! JS canvas is another thing that really shouldn't exist
eastbound 6mo ago
That’s because of React. The React Router is bad and people don’t spend extra time configuring it against its own bugs.
lemoncucumber 6mo ago
This one drives me nuts. I get it if it’s a single page app, but in many cases right-clicking the same link and choosing “open in new tab” works fine so that’s not the issue.
matusfaro 6mo ago
This usually happens in single page apps (SPA): The proper way is to have an actual link but to override the behavior to navigate within the SPA. So if you click it, the navigation will be within the SPA but if you ctrl+click it, the browser takes over and opens the underlying link in a new page. Typical issue is when a developer forgets to make it an actual link, but only inclides the SPA navigation.

Another one is hijcking ctrl+click (open in the new tab) into mere click (open here). I am shocked how many ecommerce sites do this.

by blfr 6mo ago

Another one is hijcking ctrl+click (open in the new tab) into mere click (open here). I am shocked how many ecommerce sites do this.

myself248 6mo ago

And many of them don't even have a real click action, that I can find. I can't even right-click and manually pick "open in new tab", because the browser doesn't recognize what I'm clicking on as a link. I agree, ecommerce sites are the place that I most often want to open several items in tabs and decide between them, and the place this function is most often blocked! I wish I could scream at the jerk who implemented this, but that jerk is not among the options of screamable people.

fragmede 6mo ago
> the browser doesn't recognize what I'm clicking on as a link. It's entirely possible the browser itself does, but that the site's JavaScript is (also) overriding the right click handler. There's browser extensions to override their override but having to do that is stupid.
- myself248 6mo ago
  I've installed one of those and it doesn't seem to help in the ecommerce case.
- kevincox 6mo ago
  It's possible but this seems to be quite rare. In my experience it is always just that they think a div with an onclick handler is the same thing as a link.
- mghackerlady 6mo ago
  why did we even allow this to be overridden in the first place? if you genuinely need that much control, stop shipping a webapp! JS canvas is another thing that really shouldn't exist

eastbound 6mo ago

That’s because of React. The React Router is bad and people don’t spend extra time configuring it against its own bugs.

lemoncucumber 6mo ago

This one drives me nuts. I get it if it’s a single page app, but in many cases right-clicking the same link and choosing “open in new tab” works fine so that’s not the issue.

matusfaro 6mo ago

This usually happens in single page apps (SPA): The proper way is to have an actual link but to override the behavior to navigate within the SPA. So if you click it, the navigation will be within the SPA but if you ctrl+click it, the browser takes over and opens the underlying link in a new page. Typical issue is when a developer forgets to make it an actual link, but only inclides the SPA navigation.