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External OK; what about Pop-Ups?
Authored by: OneTrueDabe on Apr 19, '03 01:32:51PM
By now, I'm sure everybody who has looked for this functionality in the "Tabs" preferences pane has figured out that it's really in the catch-all "General" pain [sic!]

But that seems to solve only half the problem: links opened by EXTERNAL applications.

What about links within Safari that use target="_blank" to open a new window, like some pages do when they link to external sites? It would be nice if we had the option of having them open in new Tabs instead (Without having to know in advance whether we're going to need to hold down the Cmd key or not -- another alternative would be to have some sort of visual cue that a link had a "target" attribute, so we'd be prepared for the window to pop up, but that's a whole 'nother issue.)

I used the "Insect Button" bug-report thingamawhatzit to send feedback to Apple (Also suggesting that it would be nice to be able to drag tabs around, either from one window to another, or simply to rearrange tabs within the current frame) but I have no idea whether or not they'd consider any of these ideas to be worth implementing.

What do other people think? Does anybody else know of a way to get Safari to do what I want, and open pop-ups in new Tabs instead of new Windows? Do any of the other tabbed browsers (Opera, Chimera/Camino, etc.) do a better job of this?

And is there ANY tag a website can use to get Safari to open a new tab? [My next idea would be to put a proxy/filter in place to rewrite any occurance of a "target" attribute before it even hit the browser, but that's a little heavy-handed, IMHO, and not very elegant.]

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External OK; what about Pop-Ups?
Authored by: prk on Nov 01, '03 12:01:56PM

I too would like to have targeted links open in a tab via a preference. This would be a nice feature. Also I like your idea of being able to rearrange the tab order. I have wanted to do that also.



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