• Trarmp@feddit.nl
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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

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

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          9 months ago

          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.

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            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.