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

#1

Post by eridal » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:07 PM UTC

Hey AWS team,

If you are reading this, please please make CTRL-click to open a new page. It's really frustrating to try to open a link in a new page just to see that the page navigated, and then if you click the back button, you end up nowhere near where you were before.

I really love the new UI, it's really good! and with this feature we could be more productive and use AWS even more!!

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

#2

Post by AbenezerMamo » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:34 PM UTC

Haha I go through this problem when I'm in S3

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

#3

Post by simonw » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:34 PM UTC

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?

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

#4

Post by kps » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:38 PM UTC

Please $SITE, stop breaking $BASIC_FUNCTIONALITY.

In Firefox, you can often avoid various hijacking by holding Shift.

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

#5

Post by paulddraper » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:44 PM UTC

Ugh. Need a hall of shame for this.

Links are the essence of the web (HTML and HTTP).

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

#6

Post by akerro » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:48 PM UTC

kps wrote: post #4

Please $SITE, stop breaking $BASIC_FUNCTIONALITY. In Firefox, you can often avoid various hijacking by holding Shift.

or scrollclick in any browser.

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

#7

Post by steveh73 » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:48 PM UTC

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?

I believe it's that javascript apps built without due care and consideration don't use true links, they use onclick handlers.

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

#8

Post by jongleberry » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:49 PM UTC

I have this exact problem with Microsoft Azure as well. Changing pages always takes 5-10 seconds and you can't open in a new tab to open new tables concurrently. Makes working in their portal really inefficient.

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

#9

Post by fooey » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:50 PM UTC

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.

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

#10

Post by rektide » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 10:51 PM UTC

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.