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Congrats on the funding. Perhaps Optimizely should run a test on their blog to see if their overall revenue is truly boosted by blocking cmd/ctrl+click on the
by tnorthcutt 12y ago
Congrats on the funding.
Perhaps Optimizely should run a test on their blog to see if their overall revenue is truly boosted by blocking cmd/ctrl+click on the "homepage" link (or pricing, or about). I'm reading the blog post, but want to also open their sales site in another tab, and... I can't. Feels like a bad idea to me, but maybe there's some logic behind it?
- svmegatron 12y agoWeirdly, middle-click (at least for me) does open the link in a new tab. If I were to venture a guess, it would be that that behavior was unintentional. If it wasn't, I'm also curious about the logic behind it.
- evmar 12y agoJust in case someone from Optimizely looks at this: I was curious so I examined the JS source. It appears the "munchkin.js" helper is the most likely candidate. The code is obfuscated but I see a click event listener that is doing logic related to detecting the control key and simulating a mouse event. It's probably broken on Macs. (In general, intercepting browser events and generating your own interacts poorly with obscure behaviors like ctl-click as well with popup blockers.)
- graeme 12y agoFor me it was chrome's popup blocker. (or an extension). Once I allowed popups, the click + cmd worked fine. Still odd behaviour though.
- bobbles 12y agoctrl+click and middle mouse both work for me here. You might have an issue with your browser?