Web developers & designers: Please STOP messing around with how my browser works. In this case, I want to open a link in a new tab, so I Cmd-Click[0] only to have my request ignored with the new page in the current tab ... but then I do get a new tab with the original article loaded into it. This might be fine for your experimentation, but it's not fine to force your incompatible UX onto my browser.
Other things that I've seen lately that are detestable:
- prevent me from zooming on mobile
- similarly, covering your actual content with an ever-present menu or heading (and I can't zoom to get around it)
- change the operation of the "back" keyboard shortcut to navigate articles on your site rather than the actual history in my browser
There are other things that are annoying, too, but they all boil down to some web site developer deciding to repurpose my browser's UI to their site. Please stop.
[0] Google Chrome 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit) on OS X 10.10.1