Christian Holst
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The consequences of breaking the user’s expectations of how the browser “Back” button should behave can be dire. During our usability tests, it has been the direct cause of abandonment, with users leaving test sites with much swearing and cursing (even from the calmer test users).
Could have been me, I do leave many sites miss-behaving with back buttons on mobile…
Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative…
Gwendolyn Rak
Tactile Controls: Why Buttons Are Making a Comeback
When I’m driving, it’s actually unsafe for my car to be operated in that way [with a touchscreen]. It’s hard to generalize and say, buttons are always…
Michael Andrews
Separating content and presentation: Moving past FUD
The biggest barrier to the universal adoption of content-presentation separation is poor implementation. Bad tools, weak requirements, and immature…
Please, please, please… check on the sites you build that using Command #fn1" id="fnref1">[1] + click #fn2" id="fnref2">[2] always opens links in a new tab, even if you used some JavaScript to build a dumb Web link!
I see too many sites where Cmd + click opens the link in the current tab, so when browsing a list of links, if I want to open them in new tabs (for example to compare products), I need to use right click and then select the "open link in a new tab" option, for each link.
Really cumbersome! 😡
Arguments for opening links in a new tab or window
A significant percentage of web professionals believe that opening outbound links in new tabs or windows provides a benefit to site owners. Why? Is…
Rakhim Davletkali
Jason Grigsby