Webpages from BYOND Open in Current Browser

ID:1395904
 
Oct 10 2013, 11:41 pm
Not Feasible
Applies to:Website
Status: Not Feasible
Implementing this feature is not possible now or in the foreseeable future
Hello! I would like to request that webpages accessed from BYOND should be opened in the current browser open in a new tab, instead of a new window.

I usually have a webbrowser open while working on my game, It would be convinient to have the BYOND webpage open on my current browinsg window.

Thankyou for your consideration!
Oct 11 2013, 5:30 am
What browser do you use? I use Chrome + various mobile browsers and the action in all of them is to open in a new tab.

This is likely something on your end that needs reconfiguring.
Oct 11 2013, 8:17 am
Topkasa is correct, all browsers that use tabbing have an option for 'single window mode' which has all new windows open as a new tab, there's no functionality that exists that can force a page to open in a new tab; it's entirely up to your browser to handle that.
Oct 11 2013, 8:18 am
Nadrew resolved issue (Not Feasible)
Oct 11 2013, 10:55 am
I'm sorry, maybe this should have gone into bug reports instead, I should have looked into it more.

http://i1335.photobucket.com/albums/w675/zxcvasdqwe123/ InternetExplorerTabs_zps0aa163c3.jpg

This is my Internet Explorer 10 Option.

At the bottom is the option used to handle new windows with tabs. Whenever there is a pop-up, it opens in a new tab, and from other programs, I have it to open new tab in the current window.

This works fine (opens a new tab in the current window) for my other stuff like Skype or Google Earth, but not BYOND applications.
Oct 11 2013, 11:20 am
We're launching the browser by looking up the proper setting in the registry, and then running a new process by calling the command as given. For example, that's usually in this form:

"[browser exe file]" "[url]"

If IE is failing to properly add URLs launched in this manner to its existing window per your settings, that's really an IE bug. It's a universal expectation that all browsers should handle URLs this way.

However, if there's another way to handle this via a workaround as programs like Skype seem to be doing, I'm perfectly happy to implement it.

[edit]
A quick Google search reveals IE 10 does in fact have issues in this area, though I don't see why some programs don't trigger it but others do, unless they're using a completely different browser launch method. In case maybe your settings are in a weird state, I'd try changing this setting for external programs, applying it, then changing back.
Oct 12 2013, 8:35 pm
I reset my options, but I still have the same problem.

Then I have tried a lot of programs to see if they had the same problem, and every one I tried opens webpages in a new tab in Internet Explorer, even really old ones like JoyToKey.

I do like Internet Explorer a lot. I would really appreciate the workaround!
Oct 13 2013, 4:41 am (Edited on Oct 13 2013, 8:24 pm)
In response to PkMax
PkMax wrote:
I do like Internet Explorer a lot.

I would've never thought I'd ever see someone say this x-x
Oct 13 2013, 5:26 pm
In response to PkMax
PkMax wrote:
I do like Internet Explorer a lot.

Bahahahaha!

Nice one. Props.
Oct 14 2013, 4:45 pm
Ouch. Whats up with you guys @_@...

I really do like Internet Explorer, and the interface is my favorite!
Oct 14 2013, 8:25 pm
In response to PkMax
It's OK, man. I feel ya. I preferred a lot of things about IE over other interfaces, but they changed it to be more like those and I didn't care that much, so I switched. You get used to chrome pretty easily. There's ups and downs each has.