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Or, as I found on a BBC news page earlier today (and reported via feedback), my middle mouse button on link to open in new tab wasn't -- the page was opening in the present tab.

Don't break user controls.

Seriously. Fucking. Annoying.

The tendency of sites to also force all links to open in a new tab is similarly annoying. I've got the means to choose. Leave it to me.

Another argument for disabling JS pretty much everywhere.

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yeees.... now-a-days very often without JS you pretty much get an empty HTML. I mean empty as in - <body></body> empty.

very often without JS you pretty much get an empty HTML

The annoying thing is: if there were a header the browser could send to the server - "JS is turned off" - it'd be trivial to serve a pre-rendered full HTML response.

It's what plenty of e.g. Angular sites do to support the various search engines. Adding one more item to the list of "serve a prenderefndered view if X is true" checks wouldn't do any harm.

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