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Consensus on opening links in same/new tab?

I'm curious what the current best practices are for handling links—esp internal links w/in a website. Should they open in new tabs, or not? At my last job, our rule was "open in same tab for internal links; open in new tab if linking outside client website." My new job doesn't really have any kind […]

BCD Watch | CSS-Tricks

A new tool from Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Stephanie Stimac backed with Igalia’s support. Brian announced it on his blog, as did Eric, describing it like this: What BCD Watch does is, it grabs releases of the Browser Compatibility Data (BCD) repository that underpins the support tables on MDN and services like caniuse.com.  It then analyzes what’s changed since […]

Introducing Plinky: My Love Letter To Links

The post below was written by me, originally featured on the Plinky blog. To celebrate the launch of Plinky you can get 50% off of a yearly subscription by redeeming this offer: plinky.app/offer/REDPANDA There are few words I’ve ever said more excitedly than these: I want to tell you about my latest app, Plinky. Plinky […]

A better way to handle links in TextView

There are two ways of “linkifying” URLs in a TextView. First, as an XML attribute: <TextView … android:autoLink=”phone|web” /> and second, programmatically: TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text1); Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.PHONE_NUMBERS | LINKIFY.WEB_URLS); In both the cases, the framework internally registers a LinkMovementMethod on the TextView that handles dispatching a ACTION_VIEW Intent when any link is clicked. This is why phone-numbers open in a dialer when clicked, […]