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Strange behavior with tabbed browsing on this site

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First post, by wmcbrine

Posted on 2004-03-21, 19:57

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Hi all,

I'm using Mozilla Firebird 0.7. Normally, on this kind of site, I like to open each new thread in its own tab, via a Ctrl-click -- leaving the topic list open on the old tab. But here, when I do that, I get a new tab with the thread (which is what I want), AND the first tab changes to the same thread, so I have two tabs with the same content, and have to go back to get to the topic list.

I use lots of phpBB's, and I've never seen this before. Any ideas?

P.S. If I right-click on the topic link, and select "Open in new tab", it works as expected. Hmm.

Reply 1 of 4, by Snover

Posted on 2004-03-24, 06:43

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Well, there are always two links, one Javascript and one standard anchor. There might be a bug in Firebird that isn't following the links in the correct layer order (anchor href would not normally be > javascript, but the javascript is a layer down on the td). Try with Firefox and see if it behaves properly. (It does in the full Mozilla suite.)

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 2 of 4, by Gambit37

Posted on 2004-03-24, 18:07

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It does the same thing in Firefiox and it's damn annoying!

Why do you have this behaviour Snover? There doesn't appear to be any good reason for using onClick handlers when you already have used anchor tags. It seems like you've done it just so that people can click the whole row rather than the text link but isn't that assuming a little too much stupidity on the part of the user? It's messing stuff up for those of us that know what we're doing! 😉

Reply 3 of 4, by Snover

Posted on 2004-03-25, 03:59

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Originally it was onclick with no anchors at all. 😀

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Reply 4 of 4, by Gambit37

Posted on 2004-03-25, 19:01

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Why? That's just making things difficult for the sake of it. Perhaps you don't care much for accesibility or usability, but using javascript for basic links is considered one of the cardinal sins in modern accesible web development. Any chance you'll change this behaviour at all?

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