Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click

Post by tedmiston » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 12:34 AM UTC

skykooler wrote: post #29

username223 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An increasing number of websites force me to right-click to follow links; maybe JS can't trap it yet? In some places, the basic process to follow a link has become right-click, copy link, paste into text editor, filter URL through script to remove tracking crap, open new tab, paste result into URL bar. Web 3.0, baby!

JS can trap right-click, at least in certain situations; for example, if you right-click in gmail, it brings up a HTML menu, not the OS-native one.

Post by brogrammernot » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 1:15 AM UTC

rektide wrote: post #10

AKA lol Angular. Curmudgeonly amusing that a team in charge of ads on the web builds a product that requires so much care to make something as basic as the link continue to work.

Post by ramblerman » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 6:40 AM UTC

fooey wrote: post #9

simonw wrote: post #3

I've seen this on a few sites, my suspicion is that it's caused by some kind of marketing analytics JavaScript that attempts to track clicks on outbound links by intercepting the click, logging the analytic event and then navigating to the destination using location.href=something. Not sure what's causing it here - could be Marketo Munchkin perhaps?

It's probably more just that sites are using SPA frameworks that use onClicks in JS instead of hrefs in HTML. Can't control click a link that isn't a link, it's a span pretending to be a link.

Post by paulddraper » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

rektide wrote: post #10

AKA lol Angular. Curmudgeonly amusing that a team in charge of ads on the web builds a product that requires so much care to make something as basic as the link continue to work.