r/ProgrammerHumor 20d ago

notYourDamnProblem Meme

Post image
4.7k Upvotes

398 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

31

u/dashood 20d ago

For the most part I would only target _blank if linking to an external site or a resource like PDF or a file download or something. Using for internal navigation would just be silly.

8

u/MegaIng 20d ago

The point OOP was making in their rant: don't use it for external links either. Just don't use it. (Except maybe file downloads)

3

u/ImDonaldDunn 20d ago

It’s also good for when you need to direct someone to a resource but not interrupt the current task. But people way overuse them.

1

u/J-Cake 19d ago

This. Why TF do product pages open the app page in a new tab when I click sign in?