Links dont open new pages.
Posted: May 20th, 2013, 10:21 am
This might be tough to describe, but it's something I noticed a couple weeks ago.
When somebody posts a link in a forum post, clicking the link takes the CURRENT page and transports you to that link destination.
Like right now, if I posted a link to http://www.google.com and you clicked on it, this page would "go away" and Google would load.
In all of the other forums I spend time on, links either load new pages or new browser tabs parallel to the current one.
For example, lots of us here, I think, are members over at the Tallahassee Gun Forum.
If you go over to this thread and click on the link in the first post, your browser will launch a new tab (if you use a browser like Chrome or Firefox or even the newest version of Internet Explorer from MS.
I think it's something in how BBF has been coded to handle URLs.
I'm not a website creator guy, but I did a little looking around and it seems that these are classified as either "Internal" links or "External" links.
Here's an article about it.
External Links vs Internal Links
When somebody posts a link in a forum post, clicking the link takes the CURRENT page and transports you to that link destination.
Like right now, if I posted a link to http://www.google.com and you clicked on it, this page would "go away" and Google would load.
In all of the other forums I spend time on, links either load new pages or new browser tabs parallel to the current one.
For example, lots of us here, I think, are members over at the Tallahassee Gun Forum.
If you go over to this thread and click on the link in the first post, your browser will launch a new tab (if you use a browser like Chrome or Firefox or even the newest version of Internet Explorer from MS.
I think it's something in how BBF has been coded to handle URLs.
I'm not a website creator guy, but I did a little looking around and it seems that these are classified as either "Internal" links or "External" links.
Here's an article about it.
External Links vs Internal Links