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

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Post by Rapzid » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:13 PM UTC

brianorwhatever wrote: post #13

AbenezerMamo wrote: post #2

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

they updated s3 recently.. sadly not solving the problem

Did that update solve any problems? Other than perhaps for someone who didn't like accessing advanced properties like object metadata? Or maybe people just really wanted a too dark blue color scheme? I switched back to the old after giving it a try and getting frustrated; wasn't ready for prime time.

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

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Post by wbkang » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:14 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?

Yeah I mean you can technically still let the middle click work if you let middle click event propagate and send analytics... maybe they just were lazy.

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

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Post by username223 » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:14 PM UTC

i336_ wrote: post #16

Try right-click > open in new tab. Nobody traps right-click in JS :] Yes, unbelievably annoying, but I've encountered this kind of behavior on a lot of websites.

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!

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

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Post by elmalto » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:16 PM UTC

jongleberry wrote: post #8

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.

Azure has probably the worst UI ever created...

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

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Post by marcusarmstrong » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:16 PM UTC

I just re-wrote some navigation on a single page app personal project and this post reminded me that I'd definitely broken this functionality. So, thanks very much!

For those with a similar problem, the fix is super easy: https://github.com/marcusdarmstrong/mockdraftable-web/commit...

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

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Post by johnmarcus » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:27 PM UTC

the only place it doesn't work for me is S3, and if I remember correctly s3 has always worked liked this, it's not the new ui specifically.

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

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Post by steffan » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:33 PM UTC

vgddvh wrote: post #19

The title sounds like you can please the AWS team by making links ctrl-clickable.

Grammatically, that would require a semicolon.

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

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Post by bshimmin » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:41 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 can confirm that Omniture (or Adobe Whatever-It's-Called now) definitely used to break right-clicking on links; I know this because we integrated it into a site and it broke right-clicking on links, and then when I turned Omniture off irritably one day, hey presto, they started working again.

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

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Post by skykooler » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:43 PM UTC

username223 wrote: post #23

i336_ wrote: post #16

Try right-click > open in new tab. Nobody traps right-click in JS :] Yes, unbelievably annoying, but I've encountered this kind of behavior on a lot of websites.

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.

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

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Post by mthoms » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 12:32 AM UTC

Websites breaking core functionality is mildly infuriating but Google Drive's desktop app disables CMD+C (copy to clipboard) on MacOS. And this is in a window whose sole purpose is to provide a sharable link to the user.

You read that right. A "native" app over-riding core operating system functionality to prevent users performing the very task the window is designed for.

Let that sink in for a moment.

(Since the window is a webview you can see (and debug) the JS code doing it. They are aware of the problem but not interested in fixing it.)