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I'm aware of the ways to force open a new tab, I was just curious as to why this wasn't the default. IMO, it provides for a friendlier user experience.
by anilm823 14y ago
I'm aware of the ways to force open a new tab, I was just curious as to why this wasn't the default. IMO, it provides for a friendlier user experience.
- dangrossman 14y agoIf a website forces a new tab when you don't want to open a new tab (as I don't), that's not friendly at all. There's no easy way to override that behavior, while it's easy to get the behavior you want.
- brudgers 14y agoHN is the site that modified the way I click on links. I started using the middle button instead of browsing like it was 1999.
- subsection1h 14y agoIt might provide a better experience for some people, but what about people who don't want links to open in new tabs? Opening links in new tabs is trivial (e.g., middle-click). Does every web browser support an equally simple way to force a link to open in the current tab? (On a related note, a problem I've been having lately is that many JavaScript-heavy sites have links that fail to open when middle-clicked. I wonder whether the people who were previously making unusable Flash sites have moved to JavaScript.)