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Images should respect control and middle click new tab behavior
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Description

Description

The image carousel should respect traditional control and middle click behavior on images by opening them in a new tab. Jumping directly to the image is an especially frustrating behavior because the gallery is the perfect venue to view all images in an article but it's impossible to "quick bookmark" an image in the carousel by opening them in a new tab for later "subset inspection". The user must either duplicate the tab or go back to the article and middle click there instead.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Go to the Notre Dame de Paris English Wikipedia article
  2. Tap on the image captioned "The spire and east side of the cathedral"
  3. Control or middle click on the image

Expected results

Image opens in a new tab. This is the standard browser behavior on most websites including Wikipedia articles

Actual results

Image opens in the same tab and the carousel has to back buttoned to and reloaded

Environments observed

  • Chromium 53.0.2785.143 built on Debian stretch/sid, running on Debian stretch/sid
  • Mozilla Firefox 45.4.0 (for Debian stretch)

Event Timeline

jhobs lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Oct 17 2016, 5:16 PM

Loading the image directly was envisioned as some kind of "poor man's zoom". (IMO it's a horrible antifeature, but lack of zoom was a major problem at the time and no one was interested in resourcing work on proper zoom functionality. See T77151 for some related discussion.)