Viewing 1.8.1 v1410 Missing Open in New Page dialog for hyperlink
1.8.1 v1410 Missing Open in New Page dialog for hyperlink
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User: Courtney H. 10 years ago
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I first noticed this tonight since it has been several versions of EW since I last needed to link from some text on one page to another page. On the link tab for inspector in V1.8.0 - it was missing the dialog and check box for "Open with new page". I upgraded to v1.8.1 v1410 and still not there. Another forum member says he has it in 1.8.1. I'm running OSX 10.10.4 developer pre-release. (oops. Sh-h-h-h) ------------------------------- MrCourtney - Honolulu, HI -------------------------------------- Mac Studio - dial monitors; iMac 27 5K - Dual Monitors - 10 TB hub Alienware: Area 51 - 24 gb - Dual Monitors - All SSD 25 TB network storage |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 10 years ago
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It is there. Make sure you have the External Page selected because that is where the option is only applicable in the current version.
------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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User: Courtney H. 10 years ago
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Quote: Paul-RAGESW - 29/06/2015 2:02:41 It is there. Make sure you have the External Page selected because that is where the option is only applicable in the current version. Paul, I'm sorry. I must have my dumb hat on tonight. Here's the screengrab. The external page (if I understood what you meant) is selected. No dialog/check box.  ]
Last edit 10 years ago ------------------------------- MrCourtney - Honolulu, HI -------------------------------------- Mac Studio - dial monitors; iMac 27 5K - Dual Monitors - 10 TB hub Alienware: Area 51 - 24 gb - Dual Monitors - All SSD 25 TB network storage |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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It's there...
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 10 years ago
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From the Link To drop down menu select 'An External Page'.
------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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User: Courtney H. 10 years ago
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Hi Roddy - Not on mine. Couple of things - 1) I'm linking to another page on the same website so "Link to: One of my Pages" is selected 2) There is no check box or dialog for Open in New Window 3) I don't want to link to an external page but if I do put in the URL for that other page and select "external page" the dialog is there. That's really, really weird and makes no sense. None at all. We could link to "one of my pages" with Open in New Windows before through many versions. I can live with it but I'm scratching my head on this one. Thanks for the pointer. Strange as it is :-) ------------------------------- MrCourtney - Honolulu, HI -------------------------------------- Mac Studio - dial monitors; iMac 27 5K - Dual Monitors - 10 TB hub Alienware: Area 51 - 24 gb - Dual Monitors - All SSD 25 TB network storage |
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User: Courtney H. 10 years ago
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Quote: Paul-RAGESW - 29/06/2015 2:49:09 From the Link To drop down menu select 'An External Page'. Thanks Paul. Roddy pointed that out. I didn't try that because it makes little sense to me. For many versions of EW we were able to do it from "One of my Pages". Could you explain the reasoning? It just seems counter-intuitive for me. Thanks. ------------------------------- MrCourtney - Honolulu, HI -------------------------------------- Mac Studio - dial monitors; iMac 27 5K - Dual Monitors - 10 TB hub Alienware: Area 51 - 24 gb - Dual Monitors - All SSD 25 TB network storage |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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In web design it is considered bad practice to have pages opening in a new window - particularly those that are in the same website. The exception would be a reference page whose content related to that of the original. In this case it would be better to use a smaller size window like THIS. Opening an external page which you have no control over can be done in a new window so that visitors who don't know how to use the history or back button don't lose your site. If you were linking to your own external blog you wouldn't open it in a new window because you can have a return button on the blog. If you were linking to my blog (which I will never have) you would open it in a new window. Since we shouldn't be using text hyperlinks anymore, I done have a widget the has this function although some of the pad and tab widgets do due to user requests. Unless you have a version of your site for tablet users, a large percentage of vistors will be using these devics to access your full website. This is why text hyperlinks and hovers are mostly redundant and opening links in a new window on a mobile device is kind of futile! ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Courtney H. 10 years ago
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Roddy - I absolutely agree with you and use best practices whenever possible. But like all things in life there are occasional exceptions - this being one of them. The users of this site are not the most sophisticated and can easily get lost jumping to a referenced page. Opening in a new window keeps the "home target" within sight. I have no problem doing it by accessing the new window through the target page. It just doesn't make much sense. Remember - this is a target page on the same web site - something I have control over. For me, doing it internally keeps things cleaner. But it's all good. I just missed the change and trying to figure out what was done was frying my brain. Thanks! ------------------------------- MrCourtney - Honolulu, HI -------------------------------------- Mac Studio - dial monitors; iMac 27 5K - Dual Monitors - 10 TB hub Alienware: Area 51 - 24 gb - Dual Monitors - All SSD 25 TB network storage |
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User: Jumbo T. 10 years ago
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I looked at previous versions of EW, but there was never an open in new window for one of my pages. Anyway, here's a solution. http://tahafut.hol.es/target/ Instead of : $target = "flickr.html"; $destination = "https://www.flickr.com/photos/flickr/galleries"; Use this : $target = "flickr.html"; $destination = "flickr.html"; So what is does is replace the same filename, but adds a target=_blank to the link. The result is what you want. Paste the code in the Footer Code box of the page. Last edit 10 years ago |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 10 years ago
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As jumbo pointed out there was never this option under the one of my pages option. We may add it in the future though ------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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