Your post brings up a great point, and I hate it when I can't open links in new windows (Harvest invoice/estimate list, I'm looking at you!). But I wonder if there's a way to handle it in a more abstract fashion -- in the sense that you let the browser tell you if a link is to be opened in a new window/tab, as opposed to hardcoding various keyboard buttons.
For example, does your technique handle middle-clicks (clicking on the middle mouse button, which is equivalent to shift-clicking)?
On a Mac, middle-click is not exactly the same as Cmd-clicking. Middle-click can't be overridden, Cmd-click can. On my site, middle clicking works fine, but I have to put in a hack to make Cmd-click work.
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Your post brings up a great point, and I hate it when I can't open links in new windows (Harvest invoice/estimate list, I'm looking at you!). But I wonder if there's a way to handle it in a more abstract fashion -- in the sense that you let the browser tell you if a link is to be opened in a new window/tab, as opposed to hardcoding various keyboard buttons.
For example, does your technique handle middle-clicks (clicking on the middle mouse button, which is equivalent to shift-clicking)?
On a Mac, middle-click is not exactly the same as Cmd-clicking. Middle-click can't be overridden, Cmd-click can. On my site, middle clicking works fine, but I have to put in a hack to make Cmd-click work.