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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I maintain a couple of Wordpress installations for clients, where new link targets are the same page, as you'd expect.

They still, somehow, manually check "link opens in new tab". I don't know why some of these boomers are allowed to use computers, I swear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you manage the WordPress installation, can’t you disable the ability or create/install a plugin that removes that ability? This hurts usability.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I could, good point. I do disable plugins for clients so they can't beat up their own website too much.

Still, there are legitimate uses for opening a site in a new tab; e.g. when it's an external website. I don't think I should automate that, since there's a granularity in there.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

legitimate uses for opening a site in a new tab; e.g. when it's an external website

This is not a legitimate use—this breaks the default user agent behavior & completely removes the autonomy of opening in the current window (there are tons of ways to open in a new tab/window). Consider rechecking the article linked higher up the thread tree.