foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

the tabbed browser is old enough to vote and yet people are still making websites where you can't mid-click navigational elements to open them in new tabs

topaz,
@topaz@chitter.xyz avatar

@foone And sometimes ctrl-click doesn't work but right-click "open in new tab" does, or maybe it's the other way round, I can't remember. Argh!

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@foone that is intentional by said websites!

moon,
@moon@akiba.social avatar

@foone I hate it from the bottom of my heart :ina_hammer:

Ronflaix,
@Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@foone I sure do love when websites reinvent hot water and remove the default behaviors.

tommarmstrong,
@tommarmstrong@mastodon.social avatar

@foone even Figma did this for their Config conference. Super frustrating when my main aim is to open up tabs for each talk I want to watch

cstross,
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

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  • cstross,
    @cstross@wandering.shop avatar

    @robcee @foone That is not simply a wrong answer, it's a wilfully obtuse misunderstanding of the question. (Hint: do you carry a bluetooth mouse around for your phone? Second hint: it's the sort of stupid that makes me block people on social media in disgust.)

    deKay,
    @deKay@mastodon.social avatar

    @foone And Chrome has now stopped "right-click text, search with Google" opening in a new tab too. It opens in an awkward sidebar instead.

    th,
    @th@v.st avatar

    @foone zero-tabs is the new inbox-zero

    jzfski,
    @jzfski@social.lol avatar
    anymouse_404,
    @anymouse_404@glitch.social avatar

    @foone If I had a dollar for every time I have to click a link normally instead of middle clicking and then middle-click the back button in my browser to reopen the previous page I was just forced to leave in a new tab, I could afford to eat out every day.

    taixzo,

    @foone or removing that from websites where you used to be able to.

    mattdsteele,
    @mattdsteele@carhenge.club avatar

    @foone this was making the rounds recently from @hbuchel, for good reason https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/07/just-normal-web-things/

    ari,
    @ari@wetdry.world avatar

    @foone onclick() is not a substitute for and i'll slap every web developer who disagrees with a freshly printed copy of the HTML5 documentation

    bytex64,
    @bytex64@awesome.garden avatar

    @foone The first tabbed browser I used was provided by GNN back in probably 1995/96. It had tabs along the bottom like Excel and IIRC it opened new tabs for all links by default so it was more like a visual history stack. I remember liking it a lot.

    humbird0,

    @foone
    It works by default, it takes extra effort to break this feature.

    penryu,
    @penryu@hachyderm.io avatar

    @foone It's the ones that disable Ctrl/Cmd-clicking that anger me most.

    sekka,
    @sekka@shark.community avatar

    @penryu @foone Yeah, that stuff is pretty infuriating.

    Using any website in 2023 is a bit of a nightmare.

    penryu,
    @penryu@hachyderm.io avatar

    @sekka @foone

    I like to use extensions like Vimium so I can interact with sites as much as possible without a pointing device.

    Naturally some sites work with a mouse but not Vimium, but some of these sites that override mouse control still work with Vimium.

    990000,
    @990000@mstdn.social avatar

    @foone everytime I see someone do links right I get very excited. But as a developer, I will say I have sometimes been unable to implement this on a few rare occasions because I was screwed over either by the designer or the project lead.

    terkerjerbs,

    @foone I work for/on a project and it drives me absolutely nuts that I can't click-tab the several areas I work in daily... They're slowly implementing friggin' keyboard-nav before they're implementing multi-tabs and I'm like hmm....

    What you can do isduplicatethe tab but that sometimes messes with session stuff and causes bad things.

    loke,
    @loke@functional.cafe avatar

    @terkerjerbs @foone Have you ever used Peoplesoft?

    It keep state on the server, and page your're on contains an index that increases whenever you perform an operation. That means that you can open a new tab, but once you try to do anything in the new tab you get an error message saying that your state is corrupt and you gte sent back to the main menu.

    What's even worse is that the original page is no also out of sync so that one gets sent back to the main menu too.

    Let me finish off by quoting Oracle in their description of this fine product:

    "Oracle's PeopleSoft applications are designed to address the most complex business requirements. They provide comprehensive business and industry solutions, enabling organizations to increase productivity, accelerate business performance, and provide a lower cost of ownership."

    k,
    @k@layer8.space avatar

    @foone what, where??

    foone,
    @foone@digipres.club avatar

    @k tumblr! the "activity" link on the left sidebar (when logged in) is some onclick() nonsense that can't be middle-clicked

    k,
    @k@layer8.space avatar

    @foone OH NO :blobhaj_ghostie_surprise:

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