Timeline for Have links in the Closing > Off-Topic dialog open in new tabs
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 15:14 | history | edited | LauraStaffMod |
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 15:14 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | It's done. :) | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 12:27 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @CodeCaster, I know some sites have links that don't look like links or are otherwise badly-styled. All I'm saying is that users all across the web expect that if something looks like a link, clicking on it loads it in the current tab and right-clicking on it gives you other options. Whenever sites violate this, as SE does with the "bulletin" links, they cause some amount of user surprise and confusion. Yeah, the web isn't perfect, but we don't have to contribute to that surprise and confusion. We should follow the well-established convention, not decide that we know best for all users. | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 7:19 | comment | added | CodeCaster | @MonicaCellio "Haven't people learned the pattern yet that if you want to keep looking at the current page you right-click and open in a new tab/window, and if you want to traverse the link you just click?" - in order to let people consistently recognize and use links, they should be implemented like that (i.e. work consistently all over the web and kind of look the same everywhere). On the current web, none of that is the case. Links don't look like links (ref: visited links on SO are near invisible) or don't work like them (ungracefully degraded AJAX-sites like GMail and Facebook). | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 6:56 | answer | added | Cody Gray | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 6:50 | history | edited | Shadow Wizard |
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| Jun 28, 2013 at 16:22 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | Related: Can the links be disabled in the vote-to-close dialog? | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 15:29 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @j08691 my point with IE is that it's always late to the party, so if even it has this functionality, it's pretty common. Firefox and Safari have had tabs and "open in new tab" for many years now and Chrome had it from the beginning AFAIK. The folks over on User Experience probably have data, but my impression is that it is a common pattern for anything that looks like a link. For your last question, I think it makes sense that someone clicking a link expects to see his current view change, and if that's not what he wanted he'll right-click. | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 15:23 | comment | added | j08691 | @MonicaCellio - I wouldn't call it an established pattern (got any references for it?), especially when referring to links in a dialog, and citing IE as an example is rarely a good sign of anything. So you're telling me you think it makes sense in this case to have to re-navigate to the question and re-select the close options? I don't. | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 15:00 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Haven't people learned the pattern yet that if you want to keep looking at the current page you right-click and open in a new tab/window, and if you want to traverse the link you just click? Even IE has this by now. We should not violate user expectations here; in addition, your approach takes away one of the options. (Yes, sometimes people use the close dialogue as an entry point for those links and don't intend to actually close the question.) | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 14:13 | comment | added | j08691 | @AndrewC - well, the same could apply to their links as well. I didn't try creating a question to test those links, but if it applies to them then change them too. | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 14:10 | comment | added | AndrewC | ..but... you're happy that the OP gets similar links? We can just right-click if really necessary? | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 14:08 | comment | added | j08691 | @AndrewC - no, for anyone who votes to close a question and clicks any of those links. | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 14:07 | comment | added | AndrewC | Erm... you mean for the OP when they read it, right? | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 14:00 | history | asked | j08691 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |