Hi. Sorry for my belated follow-up. See below.
On 15 Nov 2017, at 9:58, Hussein Shafie wrote:
On 11/14/2017 05:53 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
Browsers allow us to open links in background tabs. This allows users
to
finish working with the current page, before handling/reading the
opened
files. This have some organizational advantages for the user.
Please explain how this works in a browser (e.g. point me to an
article or doc).
All the browsers I use just have "Open Link in a New Tab" entry in
their contextual menu and a user preference (set once for all) called
"When you open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately".
I hope the following is helpful.
* Our basic expereience is the same, I suppose: In Safari and Firefox
for Mac, when you Command-Click on a link, the page is typically opened
in a tab, in the background, by which I mean that the browser does NOT
switch to it immediately. Firefox and Safari have, as you say, an
opition in the preferences to tell the browser to switch to the opened
tab immediately.
* However, you may also override the default behavior by pressing (on a
Mac) Shift-Command while clicking the link - then both Safari and
Firefox will perform an immediate switch to the new tab. (I suppose this
behavior is ”reveresed” to open in background if you, in the
preferences, tell the browser to always perform an immediate switch.)
The XMLmind editors, by contrast, always perform an immediate switch to
the tab where the followed link gets opened. And there is no option in
the preferences - that I have discovered - by which you can change the
default behavior so that it always open links in the background. And it
also has no other way to, on a case-by-case basis, allow the user to
override the behavior so that the link gets opened in a background tab.
By the way: Historically, browsers defaulted to switch immediately, and
only “nerdy” browsers (such as, on Mac, the iCab -
http://www.icab.de) opened the link in the background or allowed the
user to use a shortcut-click command to open links in the background. At
least, that is how I recall history ...,
I now edit an Ebook with 66 part, chapter and section files. I need
to
remove some unneccesary text at the beginning of each
part/chapter/section.
I would have liked to open e.g. all section files that belong to a
chapter as background tabs, so that I could work with them, before
continuing with next chapter.
So, all in all: Any chance the XMLmind editors could receive a 'open
linked file in background tab' feature?
Leif Halvard Silli
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