Ty vm! Can't wait for it to go live to test. I often open many individual results from the search bar, so this feature will be very helpful for that.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:46 AM Hannes Wallnoefer < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello David, > > I looked into the issue. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense, and it > looks like the simple solution you propose would indeed work. > > I’ve assigned the issue to myself and targeted it to JDK 26. Thanks for > the reminder, and sorry for letting the request linger for such a long time! > > Hannes > > > On 10.08.2025, at 02:49, David Alayachew <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello @[email protected] <[email protected]>, > > I am the original submitter of the following feature enhancement -- > https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8284499. > > Long story short, the feature enhancement is asking for the ability to > open Javadoc search results in a new tab. Preferably through Ctrl+Click > and/or Right-Click-Context-Menu. > > I was looking at the source code for it, and I realized that we could > achieve an 80/20 solution regarding my linked feature enhancement, simply > by making the search results on the Javadoc search page links. As in, > literal <a href> links. > > - A link is Ctrl+clickable > - A link has the right click context menu, allowing you to make a new tab > > It looks like the only code that would need to change besides making them > links is making sure Ctrl+Click does not clash with the onclick behaviour. > But that should be super trivial to implement. > > Anyways, I wanted to hear opinions on it. Does the feature enhancement > itself makes sense? And if so, would it be feasible/realistic to handle it > with my idea above? > > Thank you for your time. > David Alayachew > > >
