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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mike.teczno.com/notes/breaking-links.html"&gt;breaking links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Mike complains about sites such as Twitter and WordPress.com which mess around with Ajax and links and hence breaks the ability to command-click to open a new tab in Safari (and Chrome). I just realised that I’ve subconsciously retrained myself to right click and select “open in new tab” to avoid that exact issue.


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</summary><category term="ajax"/><category term="broken"/><category term="javascript"/><category term="links"/><category term="michal-migurski"/><category term="usability"/></entry><entry><title>YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/26/youtube/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-10-26T08:28:34+00:00</published><updated>2008-10-26T08:28:34+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/26/youtube/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-videos/"&gt;YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Add #t=1m45s to the end of a YouTube URL to jump to that spot. I’d be a lot more impressed by this if visiting a YouTube link in the UK didn’t use IP geo targetting to redirect me to uk.youtube.com, losing the fragment identifier and hence the #t specifier in the process.


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