3813: Don't use target="_blank" for links in review-request descriptions
- WontFix
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| March 17, 2015 |
What version are you running? 2.0.12 What's the URL of the page this enhancement relates to, if any? Any review request view. Describe the enhancement and the motivation for it. There seems to be a consensus that adding target="_blank" to links is a bad idea; the choice to open as a new tab/window/etc. should be left up to the user. Therefore, it should be removed from links in review-request descriptions. What operating system are you using? What browser? OS X 10.10.2, Nightly Firefox 39.0a1.
Just to give some insight into why these are there: We added these because people would sometimes click a link while replying to something or while filling out some field, not pay attention to the warning, and then end up losing content, frustrating them. There were enough requests to add a target="_blank" (and frankly, until now, no feedback to the contrary) that we went ahead and included it.
Fair enough. Feel free to WONTFIX this, and we'll decide if we want to do this as an extension for Mozilla's deployment.
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+ WontFix