[Slackbuilds-users] Javascript on slackbuilds.org search results page

[Miguel De Anda]

Thanks David. Ive had the same... Complaint(?) but never voiced it. Ive
even gone so far as to right click, open link in new tab but then that
makes a single click turn into two with a pause to read the six options
that appear.

My vote is +1

M
On Jul 17, 2013 6:07 AM, "David Woodfall" <dave at dawoodfall.net> wrote:

> I've been experiencing an annoying problem in Chromium browser with
> links on the search results page.
>
> I tend to middleclick search results links to open several at once in
> background tabs.
>
> The problem is that Chromium determines a left or a middle click to be
> a click and so what happens is that the links open tabs, but the
> location of the results page changes too.
>
> From http://www.w3schools.com/**jsref/event_onclick.asp<http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onclick.asp>:
>
> "Execute a JavaScript when a button is clicked"
>
> It is strange that after all the years that javascript has been around
> that there are no separate 'onleftclick' or 'onmiddleclick' events...
>
> So I'm not blaming you guys for it since according to the onclick
> event it can be any click. But I do have a question: is it /really/
> necesary for you to use javascript for simple links in that way?
>
> I've had to disable javascript on the slackbuilds site anyway so it
> seems a bit pointless.
>
> FWIW Firefox doesn't share this behaviour.
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
>
>
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