Hi Eric, Travis, and Others, What happens if you temporarily change your Safari preferences so that under the tab category the pop up for "Open pages in tabs instead of windows" is set to "never"? Would that work to force the link to open in a new window?
Esther On Apr 7, 2013, at 4:45 AM, Travis Siegel wrote: > Harmony is right though. If you have the link highlighted, vo-shift-m will > give you a list of options. If it's a regular link, open in new window will > be one of those options. If on the other hand, it's a javascript link > (honestly, I don't understand why so many page creators waste time using > javascript when a perfectly good a href will do quite nicely) then the open > in new window option will not appear, and the reason for that is because, the > javascript action is highly dependent on what javascript is running, what > variables are set, and what they are set to. It's nearly impossible for > safari to know in advance what the javascript link will do when clicked, as a > result, opening the link in a new window isn't possible, because there's no > way for safari to know what is supposed to happen when the link is clicked. > It may open a new page, it may highlight something on screen, or it may close > the page all together. Safari doesn't know, vo doesn't know, and as a > result, op ening in a new window makes no sense in that context, so the option is removed from available options. It's anoying, but unfortunately, that's what we're stuck with. I don't use the bard system yet, I need to get signed up from scratch due to extreme stupidity on the behalf of my uncooperating library, so I can't even begin to assist with the bard site, though I sure did enjoy the web braille while I had it. <sigh> > Ah well, hope this helps anyway. > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
