make external frontpage links open in new tab

[khromov]

Lots of interesting links, no reason to send people away from the Svelte site.

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[Rich-Harris]

I've always felt that it should be up to the user whether a link opens in a new tab or not. If we set a target we take away their control

[Conduitry]

I tend to agree with that in general, at least for sites more likely to be visited by more technical users who are more comfortable with "open this link in a new tab".

Users on mobile would be the one thing possibly giving me pause. I'm not sure.

[Rich-Harris]

On Android long-pressing a link brings up a context menu that lets you open in a new tab — does iOS Safari have something similar?

[rgon]

@Rich-Harris yes, it does open a context menu and also a small picture-in-picture preview of the link's href by default

[benmccann]

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of this

[Conduitry]

Alrighty, that's three 'no's - I'm going to go ahead and close this.