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Offline Jmac00

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question about site regarding links
« on: July 26, 2011, 05:26:37 PM »
Richard, Any chance the site can be set up so that when a link is clicked, its opens in a new window? Most sites i frequent/visit are set up this way. When i'm done viewing the link i usually click close...which results in having to come back and re-open this site cause of habit. Its not that big of a deal, but annoying at times.... :drink:

Offline Dave Savoie

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Re: question about site regarding links
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2011, 05:40:18 PM »
Right click the link itself and go to open in new tab !!!
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Re: question about site regarding links
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2011, 05:41:51 PM »
i'm too clicky happy to stop and think about doing that....LOL

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Re: question about site regarding links
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2011, 05:46:06 PM »
I usually forget :P
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Re: question about site regarding links
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2011, 05:49:44 PM »
Quote from: "Dave Savoie"
I usually forget :P


as do I as this is the only site i use that's like this....  :cheers:

Offline Gil Breau

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Re: question about site regarding links
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2011, 06:16:47 PM »
Quote from: "Dave Savoie"
Right click the link itself and go to open in new tab !!!


Scroll wheel/Button 3 works better for that :P
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Re: question about site regarding links
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2011, 09:30:41 PM »
Sorry... was on an iPhone coding binge until just now (curse you oversized novelty energy drinks!). I'll see what I can do.
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Re: question about site regarding links
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2011, 09:39:16 PM »
I can't change the behaviour without editing the code behind the board, which would potentially make future version updates flaky as hell, so I'd rather not.

Meanwhile if you're using a vaguely modern browser ctrl-click will do the same as right-click->open in new tab.

If this is really bugging a lot of people (add a me too here if so) then I'll go ahead and change it; it's just a fair bit of hassle.

Other sites based on older versions of PHPBB will potentially do the target="_blank" thing, but that's generally not considered good form these days by purists. :-/
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Re: question about site regarding links
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2011, 10:04:41 PM »
no worries....not that big of a deal to go about changing it. I just thought it might have been something simple and decided to ask.

Keep up the great work running the site... :rock:



And thanks to Gil for the tip on the scroll wheel...learn something new everyday...computers are not my strong point.. :drink: