Please! Dont use javascript links.

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Please dont use pure javascript for links. Such as when you navigate the pages of threads with many replies.

It breaks usability. For instance, I often open links I'm likely to look at after I'm done reading the current page in a new tab. But I can't do that with the forum navigation system because there is not link to open in a new tab.
Please provide conventional links. I can't see any reason to use javascript for this.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thomassen, can you provide examples of such links on WC?  Or are you talking about user comments?

It'll make using your feedback easier.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Any forum thread, article or gallery item where comments go over several pages and you got buttons to navigate to the next or previous page.

For instance this forum thread: https://forums.wincustomize.com/?aid=141378
After all the comments you got previous and next buttons which is not links, but actually divs with javascript to handle the navigation.

Sorry it wasn't clearer in original post.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'll gladly not use them if they mess things up, I'm just not sure...what not to do.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm sorry that you don't like the way we have our paging links setup. But I'm afraid that isnt likely to change.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'll gladly not use them if they mess things up, I'm just not sure...what not to do

The plea was for WC's webdevs. Not general users. (As they generally dont tend to post links with javascript) I think I might have been a bit too brief and not explaining myself when I posted the thread.

Out of curiosity; is there any technical reason why pure javascript is being used?
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Because it's more valuable than pure honey?

I really dont know, our designer chose to go in that direction for that portion of the site. In the beginning they were mostly like that. And Im pretty sure it was to get over a Firefox rendering bug. Something to do with div and a tags. We'll have to wait for the exact answer until he has time to reply

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Bump.... I'm curious about this as well.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm not sure why some parts of the forums seem to have those javascript links, and others don't, but I'll join in and just agree here. I HATE/LOATHE/DESPISE javascript "links"... give a real fraggin link, already, so that browsers can function properly!! Like the OP, I often see a link I'm interested in, but not "ready" to navigate to, and simply middle-click it to open up in another tab. Javascript links break this functionality, forcing the user to accept whatever it decides is appropriate (which is usually a popup window, or opens in current window, rather than a tab).

There is a firefox extension called "Smart Middle Click" that claims to fix this problem, but it doesn't seem to always work - and doesn't work on the example the OP gave either.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm suddenly getting script errors when going to JU, soon as I open the page in SDC. There was a Java update early this week & I think it started after that. Not exactly the same issue, I understand, but I wonder if the latest Java version has broken something.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Updating Java should not affect scripts.
Java and Javascript is two completely different thing.