breaking links. Mike complains about sites such as Twitter and WordPress.com which mess around with Ajax and links and hence breaks the ability to command-click to open a new tab in Safari (and Chrome). I just realised that I’ve subconsciously retrained myself to right click and select “open in new tab” to avoid that exact issue.
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doesn't middle-click work for you? I always use that for opening links in background to read them later
I've subconsciously trained myself to not visit sites like that ;-)
Ian Phillips - 8th October 2009 09:58 - #
that's a good solution too : )
I'm on a Mac Laptop, so I don't have a middle mouse button to click - I use middle mouse when I'm on Linux or Windows though.
maybe there's some gesture for this? opera has one afaik
Could somebody explain to this non-Mac user what the difference is between command-click and middle-click/using the context menu? Why would one work but not the other?
I'm one of the middle-clickers, myself. On my (linux) laptop, I'm emulating middle-clicking with both a both-buttons press (I suppose this wouldn't work on macs), and also the top-right corner of the touchpad is mapped to it as well. That was the default on some windows-running dell I once had, and I became trained to expect it on a touchpad very quickly.
Can't you do a fancy multiple fingers tap on macbooks to emulate a middle-click? Or is that kind of flaky? Or awkward?
Anonymous - 8th October 2009 19:16 - #
Ah, I see it's the same for ctrl-clicking on this win32 firefox. I'd had "skimlinks.com" blocked in NoScript on my first try.
Anonymous - 8th October 2009 19:27 - #
Simon, please consider updating WordPress to say WordPress.com . We are investigating into this. Thanks!
Lloyd Budd - 8th October 2009 21:48 - #
From 2002, the right way to do this:
http://youngpup.net/archived/popups.html
Jeremy Dunck - 8th October 2009 22:08 - #
Done, thanks Lloyd.
I've found that Chrome's middle click gets treated slightly differently to its context-menu -> open-in-new-tab on some Ajaxy sites. Seems the middle click event gets handed to the Javascript listener, which can then prevent the default action of a new tab opening. That doesn't happen with Firefox, for instance.
phl - 9th October 2009 12:38 - #
Yup, that suhold defo do the trick!
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