Hello Lufrutta,
I’m delighted you’ve downloaded Blipper Widget and have found it useful – thank you very much. I very much appreciate your lovely review, and I’m honoured by the star rating. I’m happy that you like the design features, too.
Regarding your comment about opening the blip journal in the same browser tab: it is a design decision that I am not likely to change. I made this decision for two reasons: choice and security.
*Choice*
Often, when I’m reading something online, I follow link after link that opens in a new tab. This can cause many tabs to be open at once – sometimes so many that I can’t find the original tab (especially if there were already several tabs open) or I can’t read the tab title any more because the tabs are too narrow (and I don’t recognise the favicon). This behaviour also breaks the back button: you can’t just press ‘Back’ (or ‘<‘) to return to the previous page.
I prefer to let the user choose whether to open a link in the same tab or a new tab. If the user prefers to be able to navigate easily to the original page, they need simply to click on the link, then click the back button when they’re done. However, if the user prefers to open the link in a new tab, they need only to right-click the link and select the ‘Open Link in New Tab’ (or similarly worded) option. It’s an extra click, but I think it’s worth it for the security it brings.
*Security*
Browsers are told to open links in new tabs using the target=”_blank” attribute in the link’s anchor in the HTML that creates a given web page. This code allows nefarious websites to hijack the original tab and to phish for sensitive data in that tab. Blipfoto is not a nefarious website, but there’s a chance it could be hacked by nefarious people. Hackers could change the Blipfoto website so that acts in a nefarious way.
There are ways to overcome this security flaw, but they are not necessarily supported by all browsers. Therefore, I prefer not to introduce the vulnerability in the first place.
I hope you can understand and appreciate the reasons behind this decision, and that you get lots of pleasure from using Blipper Widget in the future.
Thank you again for downloading and using Blipper Widget. I’ll look forward to seeing you on Blipfoto soon!
Cheers,
pandammonium
