SPA websites that go out of their way to make opening a link in a new tab difficult to impossible can well and truly go fuck themselves
When the webpage doesn't want you opening new tabs
Submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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lemon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
tja@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No that’s the other way around. They are just so poorly programmed that they don’t use the normal mechanisms. Everything has to be reimplemented to work in that app. If you don’t think of a basic feature in the beginning, you have a very bad time. And since a lot of SPAs nowadays are programmed as “App”. They do not even have the concept of multiple tabs.
I am using an open source tool where there is an open ticket for years to make opening a link in a new tab possible. But because of the multi platform framework it seems very much impossible to implement.
This is the state of frontend development. Every few years they need to reinvent the wheel and sometimes they forget a place for the axle.
Thorry@feddit.org 2 days ago
Oh but it can be so much worse. I’ve had to work with a task management system of a company I was doing some jobs for. This system was the absolute worst. It’s one of those SPA this isn’t a website but an app kind of thing.
First thing I hated, as soon as you did anything, it was immediately done. Edit a title? It saves all the time, so other people see you editing. Click on a toggle, oops it’s toggled now, hope that didn’t just send an email to 30 people. Clicked somewhere in the page and it did something, but you aren’t sure what exactly? Sucks to be you. Just want to see what options pop up when changing some setting, nah it’s already set and screwed up everything.
Another system I work with doesn’t do anything unless you explicitly click the save button. And for anything that does something right away, there is always a confirm prompt. I love that for business applications, when you do something you know what it was you did. And you can mess around with stuff, without worrying you’ve messed something up.
But that cursed task management system was designed so you could just leave it open and the view would automatically update with any and all changes. That way you didn’t need to refresh and new stuff would always be seen immediately. Sounds like a pretty nice feature and something I would actually want (even though I do like the old refresh to make sure it’s up to date and not stalled in the background). However the way they implemented this was to have a view state. That view state was what you wanted to see and would be kept updated. Navigating wasn’t really navigating, it was just updating your view state to look at something else. This meant if you open two tabs and navigated in the first tab, the second tab would also change!
Alright not the biggest of issues, just open up another browser profile or incognito or something and log in to for example compare two sets of data. NO! They connected the view state to the account, not the session! I simply couldn’t believe it when I first ran into this. And the app had no way of opening two tasks side by side, it was infuriating. For a second I even contemplated getting a second account, but of course it was one of those SaaS things that you’d have to pay for per account.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 days ago
This man is hurting still.
four@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Syncing the view state between different browsers is pretty impressive. Too bad they were to preoccupied with whether they could
ngdev@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
i dont think its all that impressive tbh, instead of using local/session storage for state they use a server
petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 days ago
*middle click and right click link>open in a new tab*: are we a joke to you?!?56_@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Some pages try to re-implement links in javascript, but forget about anything other than left-click.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 2 days ago
I have to work in a web application written in I guess JS and it annoys me to no end that I have to duplicate a tab if I want a link to open in a new tab.
Beacon@fedia.io 2 days ago
Is there a way to do this in mobile browsers?
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Safari iOS:
View all tabs > hold a website tab card > Duplicate
iOS 26 Safari screenshot showing all tabs view and menu including Duplicate
56_@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
In Firefox you can also middle click the reload button to duplicate the tab. There’s not much you can’t middle click actually :)
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 2 days ago
Holy shit, I didn’t know that. That’s going to be so helpful.
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
You forgot the most important thing:
Links
Middle clicking a link will open it in a new tab which is what I mostly use.
Lenny@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’m more of a Ctrl + Left-Click man myself. Yes, it’s because it fuck up the middle click 50% of the time and turn in page scrolling.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Also middle clicking on a tab will close it, no need to hunt for the little x.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 day ago
Can i do it with ctrl+click? I may start to do that
56_@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
And you can hide the close button by adding
to your userChrome.css file. Works with vertical tabs too.