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Re:If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, ... by zwkrt on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:50PM (#33171290)
couterpoint: users don't care if your page is SPA. They care about opening new tabs.
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Re:If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, ... by irrational on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:34PM (#33171656)
Exactly. It don’t care if it takes more work for you as a developer to make everything a pageable URL. Just make it work the way I expect it to work.
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Re:If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, ... by afarviral on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:53PM (#33172199)
... and developers don't care if users like new tabs, they write SPAs.
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Re:If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, ... by number6 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:57AM (#33173401)
After spending a day trying out a new framework my junior dev asked me: "why don't we do it the old way? We would have finished the first feature already. We can do everything the framework does already with our old tools"

So I reverted my changes and worked on features instead of stack

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Re:If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, ... by zelphirkalt on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @04:18AM (#33174276)
Quite a good thing for a junior dev. Not being swept away by hype and being focussed on the thing one actually should accomplish. I don't know that person, but this smells like there is potential.
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Re:If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, ... by jameshart on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:44AM (#33175104)
That junior developer’s name? Albert Einstein.
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Re:If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, ... by yakshaving_jgt on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:34AM (#33175458)
Give that junior a promotion.
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Re:If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, ... by OJFord on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:07AM (#33174566)
I'm not defending it! I hate it too!

I was just responding to it being a criticism of 'designers', maybe I misread that, but my initial reaction was as above, that it's not completely trivial to allow, or like it necessarily comes for free and has been 'turned off' by design.

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