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Gris - Sep 17, 2004 10:37:08 am PDT #8295 of 10000
Hey. New board.

I have a suggestion.

Would it be possible to set things up so that the threadsuck pages default to opening links in a new window?

Reasoning: I can't count the number of times that I've been catching up in a thread with a several-hundred post threadsuck, gotten halfway down and read about a Cool Website of Awesomeness (tm) with link included. I click, absentmindedly, read the CWoA, and then hit my back button, only to get greeted with the "This page relied on POSTDATA. Would you like to resubmit it?" I sigh, choose "Yes," wait a minute, hurt the b.org servers a bit for no obvious reason, and scroll down trying to find where I stopped reading. It's... annoying.

Now, I could simply middle-click the links and close the new tab when I'm done. I know this. And, usually, I'll do that the SECOND link I check out. But I still had to go through it once because I'm stupid.

But if links opened by default in a new window...

This may annoy more people than it helps. Just a thought.

brenda m - Sep 17, 2004 3:27:54 pm PDT #8296 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I've had that thought, too, Nova. I'd find it really helpful, but I don't know enough about coding to know if it'd be a pain to implement.

Topic!Cindy - Sep 17, 2004 3:40:19 pm PDT #8297 of 10000
What is even happening?

I wish all our links added the functionality that the target="_blank" coding does when you make an t a href tag. The Bronze Beta does this. All links open up a new page. If you include the target="_blank" coding in your t a href there though, your link doesn't link.

§ ita § - Sep 17, 2004 3:50:06 pm PDT #8298 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I like the idea that the threadsuck has them, but I'm reluctant to do that for every link.

DebetEsse - Sep 17, 2004 4:05:33 pm PDT #8299 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I open a new tab (but not window) for links, so that functionality in general links would subtract functionality for me.

I have no opinion on the threadsuck issue.

Gris - Sep 17, 2004 4:20:25 pm PDT #8300 of 10000
Hey. New board.

If you middle-click a link designed to open in a new window, it will still open in a new tab rather than a new window. So if it was implemented, opening links in a new tab would work exactly the same.

Hil R. - Sep 17, 2004 4:36:49 pm PDT #8301 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I generally open links in the same window I'm in, because I prefer using the back button to having a bunch of windows and tabs floating around. When I want something in a different tab or different window, I open it that way, and I generally find it annoying when something automatically opens in another window.. Making it automatically in a different window would also subract functionality for me.

DebetEsse - Sep 17, 2004 4:38:22 pm PDT #8302 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

(I have no middle button. Just one button. I love my Mac.)

Hil R. - Sep 17, 2004 4:39:45 pm PDT #8303 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm using a laptop, and also have no middle button.

NoiseDesign - Sep 17, 2004 5:00:12 pm PDT #8304 of 10000
Our wings are not tired

I just right click or cntrl-click and choose new tab.

New window would drive me bugfuck, too much like popups.

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