Please $SITE, stop breaking $BASIC_FUNCTIONALITY. In Firefox, you can often avoid various hijacking by holding Shift.
or scrollclick in any browser.
But not any website :(
Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
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Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#12I'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 saw that too. But I used Segment's analytics.js [0] several years ago and they solved this problem. Other companies should take a look at analytics.js and fix their scripts.
Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#13Haha I go through this problem when I'm in S3
they updated s3 recently.. sadly not solving the problem
Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#14I'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.
This. I've been guilty of it, because sometimes it makes sense if you're in a hurry and want to add clever functionality (for example, make the whole row of a table be a "link"). Only to be overtly frustrated when you try to use the the app yourself. I'll wheel-click a table row and curse myself for not have thought that before.
Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#15use the api (which is also not perfect)
Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#16Try 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.
Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#17Oh jesus, Today I was messing around with Athena and S3, very cool product btw. In the new s3 control panel, I was having the hardest time selecting the bucket and path I was on so I could copy it. Its 2017, wtf?
Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#18AKA 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.
It's not difficult at all to write Angular apps where links can be opened in new tabs. I would imagine the same is true for all the major SPA frameworks.
Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#19The title sounds like you can please the AWS team by making links ctrl-clickable.
Re: Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
#20Oh jesus, Today I was messing around with Athena and S3, very cool product btw. In the new s3 control panel, I was having the hardest time selecting the bucket and path I was on so I could copy it. Its 2017, wtf?
The new UI is uneccessary and incomplete. The old UI was a fine flat, plain design ala Goole. The new UI lacks many features of the old and feels more clunky; it should not have been enabled yet.