[pmwiki-users] "/e" in Cookbook / ExternalLinks2

Simon nzskiwi at gmail.com
Sun Sep 22 01:28:30 PDT 2019


On my wiki all outlinks open in a new tab, for the reasons you mention.

cheers

Simon
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 18:08, Donald Z. Osborn <dzosborn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Petko, It works.
>
> Wrt opening new tab on click, I understand you, but also have long noted
> some sites doing this (big ons, for example, like Twitter & LinkedIn). My
> original thinking some years back was that since I often include a lot of
> outlinks, I didn't want to "lose" visitors who follow a link out to others.
> Anyway, am rethinking.
>
> Just for fun I put up a poll on Twitter about this issue:
> https://twitter.com/donosborn/status/1174747463535775744
>
> Don
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:00 PM Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:
>
>> I think I've fixed the recipe, if you test it please report if it works.
>>
>> As of 2019, for my websites, instead of this recipe, I'd certainly *not*
>> enable the %newwin%/target="_blank" link feature (people know how to
>> middle-click or long-tap to open a new window), and if I needed the
>> external link styling I'd place into pub/css/local.css these styles:
>>
>>    a.urllink:not([href*="://www.example.com"]) {
>>      color: #2f6fab;
>>    }
>>
>>    a.urllink:not([href*="://www.example.com"]):after {
>>      content: '\2197'; /* NE arrow */
>>    }
>>
>> "a.urllink" is the default CSS class for external links, unless a recipe
>> or a skin modified it. www.example.com is your domain name.
>>
>> Petko
>>
>> On 17/09/2019 17:02, Donald Z. Osborn wrote:
>> > Noted the /e parameter - perhaps the very same one that causes issues
>> > with
>> > PHP7.2 - in:
>> > https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ExternalLinks2
>> >
>> > Should/can this be fixed, or is there a recommended alternative?
>>
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