A problem with a link to the Bitcointalk.org forums on my web site.

[roslinpl]

Hello!

This is a question to staff members/moderators as I have a little problem.

I am developing a web site, Bitcoin related where I had two links (for now) to Bitcointalk.org forum.

I am working with Unity3D engine to build it up, and links were working very good till last night

Now I am getting an error message while trying to open those links to Bitcointalk.org that page should be targeted to open in a separate tab or a window....

Other links related with other pages works OK as before. This happen only to Bitcointalk.org links which must be caused by some changes

For me this is a little problem because in  Unity3D  scipting I can make a link to open (like I did for now) in a new window (as it is highly hard or impossible to open  a link in a new tab), but opening a new window is blocked by the web browser.
So now I would need to inform users that they need to enable pop-ups in their browsers  which isn't good in this case.

I just want to know:  was there any changes done to the forum to block links from external pages to open in a main window of those pages?
Or something else is causing this?

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Kind regards!

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[theymos]

I just want to know:  was there any changes done to the forum to block links from external pages to open in a main window of those pages?

I don't think so.

Maybe it's because the forum uses https?

[snarlpill]

I just checked my site, I have no problems with my BTCtalk.org links opening in a new tab/window. Have you tried

Code:

<a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php" target="_blank">Bitcointalk.org</a>

   ?
Apologies if that seems obvious, I don't know how new you are to writing code.

[roslinpl]

I just want to know:  was there any changes done to the forum to block links from external pages to open in a main window of those pages?

I don't think so.

Maybe it's because the forum uses https?

Thanks for your response!

I think you are right.

While typing a post I just double checked everything and what I found that indeed my Button linked to Blockchain.info which is https too stopped working as well..

Ok ... so now I do understand that I cannot open htts sites on a main window .. (I could yesterday..)

I didn't change anything to my script while this "error" occured. So this is why I was thinking that there was some change on a Bitcointalk.org.

This script operating a button is:

Code:

// This one below was working till ~yesterday and it was opening a link in a same tab as my web page was
      //Application.OpenURL("https://bitcointalk.org");
[b]//This one I am using right now according to error given while using ^ ^, but it is a window blocked by a most of the browsers by default[/b]
       Application.ExternalEval("window.open('https://bitcointalk.org','_blank')");

In JavaScript or C# with Unity3D there isn't really possible to make it open in a "tab" instead of a "window". Perhaps there is some way to implement a script which will do it but hours of scripting are not worth for this kind of a problem as it was working correctly till yesterday.

But perhaps I will need to figure it out somehow well ...


Thank you one more time for your response. I was pretty sure that blockchain.info was loading before but when Bitcointalk.org already wasn't ... perhaps it took some more time for google bots to find it out

Well it makes things harder

I just checked my site, I have no problems with my BTCtalk.org links opening in a new tab/window. Have you tried

Code:

<a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php" target="_blank">Bitcointalk.org</a>

  ?
Apologies if that seems obvious, I don't know how new you are to writing code.

I am writing in a JavaScript in this case. Well it was working great with my script that you can read above but now it isn't Like I told somewhere above perhaps this is due to some google bots, or maybe I am wrong - but I dunno other answer as it was working yesterday and it is not working now

Kind regards.