alt Hacker NewsBrowser content should never be able to modify the configuration of my desktop window layout by opening a new window. There I said it.
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NoMoreNicksLeft • 01/17/2025
Agreed, but I think this was a workaround for early web apps that existed in the primitive days. You'd need two webpages of the same site open to complete some task, but the apps weren't sophisticated enough to do that within a single window/tab. Once they did it back then, now too many web apps and workflows would suffer if they just killed that functionality entirely, too many users would scream.
TFA doesn't use separate windows, only separate tabs.