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Re: Open links in new tab or window ?

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Hello, who lives in the old dimension of page honors and has not recognized browser worlds / W3C and more (?) And / or misunderstood the use of the mouse? Here more reading material: Hint(?!) Mark Ups and more:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-to ... s-of-1999/
https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/Referenz ... ute/target
https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/HTML/Kopfdaten/base
https://www.stichpunkt.de/html/target.html
https://t3n.de/news/facebook-sicherheit ... nk-742146/
https://www.media-affin.de/gruende-gegen-target-blank
http://www.jessett.com/web_sites/usabil ... tion.shtml
https://css-tricks.com/use-target_blank/
Or read here: http://www.w3.org/

BTW: to back up pishing? I hope never ..., so read please:

https://www.markus-steinacher.at/sicher ... oreferrer/
Website-Design is more than you would expect ....


... and so on... ?
Greetings ;)
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Re: Open links in new tab

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david63 wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:30 am
John connor wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:23 am I've actually read posts on other sites with users saying they had close to 30 or more tabs open at a time
That all - I have 160 at the minute!



How the hell do you go through all that? Because the tabs get smaller and smaller. I guess with a large screen it'll help, but not much, especially with that many tabs open.
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Re: Open links in new tab

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John connor wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2019 2:07 am How the hell do you go through all that? Because the tabs get smaller and smaller.
Use tab groups
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Re: Open links in new tab

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david63 wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:56 am If I am not mistaken phpBB 2 did open all links in a new window (tabs had not been "invented" back then).
I don't think it did and opening new browser windows was generally frowned upon regardless of the application.
Now that tabs are around then the need is perhaps not so great and the current "best practice" is, I believe, to open links to the same site in the same tab, as it makes more sense for navigation, and to open external links in a new tab/window.
I would agree to the extent of external links in content.
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Re: Open links in new tab

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Tastenplayer wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:31 pm Unfortunately there are more and more pages, of which there is only one back with close of the browser.
Right click the back arrow. ;)
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Re: Open links in new tab

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Hi thecoalman,
Right click the back arrow. ;)
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Yeah, well argued and ABOVE ALL PERFECTLY observed. Thank you!;)
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Re: Open links in new tab

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hnjrh.jpg
Not sure if that's what he meant or not. :lol:
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Re: Open links in new tab

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Talk19Zehn wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2019 3:18 pm Yeah, well argued and ABOVE ALL PERFECTLY observed. Thank you!;)
Not sure what you are getting at but I was referring to the back arrow on the browser itself.
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Re: Open links in new tab

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Hello thecoalman, precisely and I can also use at this point the "right-click" to choose whether I want to open the arrow (back, forward) in a new WINDOW or TAB. So decide on this point also itself, what I consider important. :D

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Re: Open links in new tab

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david63 wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:30 am I have 160 at the minute!
I'm a computer freak, but with so many tabs open, even I'd get a heart crisis. :shock: :lol:
John connor wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2019 3:31 pm hnjrh.jpg

Not sure if that's what he meant or not. :lol:
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thecoalman wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:12 pm
Tastenplayer wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:31 pm Unfortunately there are more and more pages, of which there is only one back with close of the browser.
Right click the back arrow. ;)
It doesn't always work. Some pages are blocked, so you can't get away from them. :evil:
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Re: Open links in new tab

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John connor wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 1:17 pmit's a real PITA every time I click a link it opens in the same tab and I then have to use the back button
Alternatively start using your keyboard: for most internet browser holding down CTRL while clicking forces a new tab (while SHIFT forces a new window). Likewise ALT+LEFT goes back to the previously visited site (and ALT+RIGHT goes forward once you did go backwards).

It also comes down to the internet browser and how it lets you make settings per website - years ago Opera (v12 and before) could be configured perfectly for all that without being bound to what the website owner wanted or missed. The internet browser was even smart enough to let you do that on form submittings (speak: like using the editor here when making a reply, and then holding down CTRL while clicking on the "Submit" button would open a new tab with the outcome, while the original editor was left untouched - this was great in unstable environments and you disliked typing texts again and again).

John connor wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 1:17 pmonly this site I have to remember to middle mouse button the link to open in a new tab. Damn near every site I've come across opens a link in a new tab. Why this website can't do that is asinine.
No, the opposite is. And I fear you don't want it to be consistent, just like the example I already mentioned: that clicking form buttons would also force a new tab. Up to this day I don't understand website owners that force me to do at least 5 clicks (and then I the actual data is still hidden in a PDF) with the outcome of having 5 new tabs - as if I'm never done reading any of the previous pages.

I don't have mouses with a middle button: there's always the wheel. Didn't mouses with a middle button extinct when the wheel was invented?
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Re: Open links in new tab

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AmigoJack wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:34 am Didn't mouses with a middle button extinct when the wheel was invented?
Now there are 5 buttons and wheel instead of only 3 buttons.

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Re: Open links in new tab

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AmigoJack wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:34 am I don't have mouses
On a point of English grammar they are mice not mouses ;) ;)
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Tastenplayer wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:24 pm Now there are 5 buttons and wheel instead of only 3 buttons.
I've got a mouse with 6 plus the wheel. :)
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Re: Open links in new tab

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AmigoJack wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:34 am ...
I don't have mouses with a middle button: there's always the wheel. Didn't mouses with a middle button extinct when the wheel was invented?
Doesn't the wheel have a button function also?

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