Re: click behavior: Well, there's an issue many disagree about.
A great many people *are* wrong, yes.
The best sources for web design that I use in teaching that to my students say to use single-click for in-site links (who wants a million tabs or windows for the same site?) but target tabs/windows for outside links. For those who open links as you do, they work the same as ever!
Well, no, they don't.
I have three buttons (actually 5 but I'm only talking about 3)
Button 1: Open the current link in the current window/tab, retaining focus. Button 2: Open the current link in a new tab in the background and load that page without giving it focus. Button 3: Open a list of options.
Thing is, I CAN'T SEE if a link is going to behave in a nonstandard way without clicking it. I'm playing Mystery Meat Navigation as soon as I click on one of those links, because I have *no idea* if it's going to do WHAT I TOLD IT TO DO, or if it's going to do something I manifestly DIDN'T want it to do. After all, if I wanted to open it in a new window, I would have right-clicked and chosen "open in a new window".
Left-click means "open in the current tab" Anything you do that *changes* that behaviour in unpredictable ways is bad.
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Date: 2010-04-15 08:01 pm (UTC)A great many people *are* wrong, yes.
The best sources for web design that I use in teaching that to my students say to use single-click for in-site links (who wants a million tabs or windows for the same site?) but target tabs/windows for outside links. For those who open links as you do, they work the same as ever!
Well, no, they don't.
I have three buttons (actually 5 but I'm only talking about 3)
Button 1: Open the current link in the current window/tab, retaining focus.
Button 2: Open the current link in a new tab in the background and load that page without giving it focus.
Button 3: Open a list of options.
Thing is, I CAN'T SEE if a link is going to behave in a nonstandard way without clicking it. I'm playing Mystery Meat Navigation as soon as I click on one of those links, because I have *no idea* if it's going to do WHAT I TOLD IT TO DO, or if it's going to do something I manifestly DIDN'T want it to do. After all, if I wanted to open it in a new window, I would have right-clicked and chosen "open in a new window".
Left-click means "open in the current tab"
Anything you do that *changes* that behaviour in unpredictable ways is bad.