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12/08/2016 01:37:50 AM (7 years ago)
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  • Ticket #39097, comment 4

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    33Website owners often add target="_blank" to try to "keep people on their site" - this is of course a bad thing to do as discussed in the other ticket. However, having a feature which *forces* someone off their site, highly unexpectedly, and disables the right click context menu feels even worse. I can't imagine any site owner would want to use embeds if they knew this would be the result.
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    5 I'm sure there were good reasons for hijacking the links in the way done currently, but most uses of iframes would never require this - does the gain outweigh the cost?
     5I'm sure there were good reasons for hijacking the links in the way done currently, but most uses of iframes would never require this (think, say, Twitter embeds) - does the gain outweigh the cost?