[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23432: Review usage of target="_blank" in the admin

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#23432: Review usage of target="_blank" in the admin
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 Reporter:  theadityajain   |       Owner:  rianrietveld
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  3.2
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch       |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility
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Comment (by rianrietveld):

 Investigated the use of target="_blank" in the admin today.

 Almost all target="_blank" links are in the help-wrap at the top of almost
 each admin-view.
 And if no permalink structure is set, a button Change permalink is shown
 with a target=_blank link to the set permalink page.

 I left out the media and press-this for this review.

 Most links can be changed easily by just removing the target.
 On other pages an alert needs to be set for possible unsaved data when a
 user leaves, as done in the edit.php, but that can be done later.

 The (old) link functionality is still in core, you can activate it with
 the the plugin Link Manager, which has 100,000+ active installs. This also
 has "_blank in the help-wrap.

 The plan is to open new tickets per functionality (like
 users/comments/network) and make patches for those. We can discuss per
 ticket what needs to go and what can stay. But for the links in help: I
 think all blank can go.

 A few questions:
 - Then there is the preview button. Should this open in a new window or in
 the same? I prefer stay with a visual warning.
 - Some functionality, like the menus and the old link functionality, gives
 the user the option to add a link target="_blank". Maybe we should
 reconsider this?  Related to this is #36809

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23432#comment:33>
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