Dear web developers,
Please consider browser functionality when designing your sites. More and more “Web 2.0″ sites are taking away my browser features. The biggest culprit so far are sites with JS that like to make links which redirect you to a different page via JS or pop-up a modal, or other similar dialog which then has a link that takes you to a different page. Both of these prevent me from being able to open a link in a new tab, which is more than annoying. My university and several large shopping sites still do this. Please stop.
If I middle click a link which, if I left click it takes me to, or has another link which takes me to, another page, that action should open that page up in another tab. Repeat: that action should not do nothing, but open the page up in a new tab! It also should open the link and not something like the same page with a # appended to it or some Javascript in the address bar.