Or, as I found on a BBC news page earlier today (and reported via feedback), my middle mouse button on link to open in new tab wasn't -- the page was opening in the present tab.
Don't break user controls.
Seriously. Fucking. Annoying.
The tendency of sites to also force all links to open in a new tab is similarly annoying. I've got the means to choose. Leave it to me.
Another argument for disabling JS pretty much everywhere.
very often without JS you pretty much get an empty HTML
The annoying thing is: if there were a header the browser could send to the server - "JS is turned off" - it'd be trivial to serve a pre-rendered full HTML response.
It's what plenty of e.g. Angular sites do to support the various search engines. Adding one more item to the list of "serve a prenderefndered view if X is true" checks wouldn't do any harm.
Don't break user controls.
Seriously. Fucking. Annoying.
The tendency of sites to also force all links to open in a new tab is similarly annoying. I've got the means to choose. Leave it to me.
Another argument for disabling JS pretty much everywhere.