Can we make the search results links?

[David Alayachew]

Also, could you (or anyone else) link this discussion to the ticket? That
way it's clear the sequence of events.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 11:16 AM David Alayachew <davidalayachew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 <
> hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> 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 <davidalayachew at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello @javadoc-dev at openjdk.org <javadoc-dev at openjdk.org>,
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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