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Make middle-click work or get off the Web!

I'm tired of seeing it happen and this seems to be getting worse rather than better over time, so I'm going to rant about it now. If your website doesn't properly support middle-click (and right-click) for linking documents, then you're doing web development wrong! In fact, in the United States, it's actually illegal. For the uninitiated normal human who might stumble upon this post, HTML is how web pages are designed. HTML is defined as a limited set of "HTML tags" (or just "tags") that define the structure of how the web browser is supposed to render a HTML document. As time has marched forward and specifications for HTML have evolved/adapted to the changing needs of the web, the set of "HTML tags" has changed too. However, what hasn't ever changed is that if you want to form a link between two documents, the ONLY acceptable tag is the "a" tag, which is shorthand for "anchor." The "a" tag is ...