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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-6021:
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Option (ii) gets my vote too. If I want to open a link in a new tab, I usually
just control-click the link in Firefox, which is easy enough. Opening the
manuals in the same tab sounds like a good default.
> Link behavior on main Documentation page has changed
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>
> Key: DERBY-6021
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6021
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Web Site
> Affects Versions: 10.9.1.0
> Reporter: Kim Haase
> Priority: Minor
>
> The latest revision of the Documentation page of the Derby website
> (http://db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html) no longer has the attribute
> 'target="_blank"' on the links to the Latest Alpha Manuals. This means that
> the latest manuals open in the same tab or window as the main documentation
> page unless the user takes specific steps in the browser to open them in a
> different tab or window.
> The attribute is still present on the release-specific manuals, so the user
> experience with the latest manuals is different both from the previous
> behavior and with the manuals on the rest of the documentation page. I've
> gotten used to having the main documentation page always available so that I
> can easily open multiple manuals at a time, but my situation may be unusual.
> I would suggest that the 'target="_blank"' attribute be added to the Latest
> Alpha Manuals links for consistency with previous practice and with the other
> links on the page, but I'm happy to withdraw the suggestion if others take a
> different view.
> There is a small box with an arrow on each of the Latest Alpha Manuals links
> now, probably a result of the 'class="external"' attribute, which indicates a
> link to a non-Apache web site. This change is appropriate, and it does add a
> visual cue that these manuals are different from the others.
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