nothing on a page is a link

@Col_Needham​ it is expected behaviour because it is how the site is written now. you can read the code by pressing RMB view page source and it is consistent on three different browsers with 2 entirely different engines the links were removed and replaced by super slow spaghetti code spam elements were added fonts were changed and the position of information pointlessly moved around

i am trying to press MMB on any of these RED and to not see any of these GREEN

@agof​ it was working for last 8 years, now it does not for no reason whatsoever. and the site is slow no it is not on my side and the normal part of the site works fine it's all the shockwave flash objects that take their time to load, and then they move all the elements which i just wanted to click away, replacing them with spam

@agof​ I don't know what you mean by "MMB". I am trying to narrow down where you are actually experiencing a problem so you can avoid trying to fix things that are working as designed. However, I can tell you: Where you have the word Lexx in a red box above the words "Episode list", that word "Lexx" is not intended to be clickable. You have to click Back, above the title and to the left, to get back to the main page for the series. On the other hand, the Seasons, Years, and Top-rated, as well as the 1 2 3 4 below them, are indeed supposed to be clickable. If they are not clickable for you, then there is a problem somewhere but I don't know what it is.

@gromit82​ middle mouse button it's just bad design click them with MMB they are not links

Hi

issue is that the navigation is poorly designed for smartphones only instead of being designed for everyone including contributors. who use pcs i click it with mmb and nothing happens, because those are not links

no one even tried to reproduce the issue press [mmb] not [lmb]. or [rmb] [open in a new tab], which also doesn't work because the links were replaces by shockwave flash. [lmb] doesn't matter [mmb] on a link is not a special feature it's universal web action opening a new tab, same way pressing [mmb] on a tab closes it. it's universal for all the browser since forever. same as [m4] [m5] are forward backwards, or pressing [mmb] on a page starts scrolling the process is that i can't just create a new tab with episodes without having to basically start from scratch from imdb frontpage. and that all the spam like "top rated" is slow to load and makes GUI jump around. there are no similar complaints because this is something contributors would need. common users on smartphones do not need to have multiple tabs of the episodes page, several times per week. also out of contributors most people would suffer anything before they would write about it. unless it's as bad as this redesign, about which there are tens of posts created

Just so you know, agof, the site loads slowly on smartphones too. There is a lot of JavaScript (DOM manipulation, AJAX/fetch requests and Service Worker) bloat. I don't see where any of this has anything to do with Flash. For the most part, on most websites, Flash has been forgone for all the beautiful features of HTML 5, which may be poorly optimized in the Chromium web browser engine (even after all these years) despite being so awesome. Whether or not you're running a 32-bit program/app on a 64-bit architecture also kind of affects things. Such a mess this has been. (Google search results, Reddit [sans old Reddit], Twitter and GitHub are four other examples of websites that are ridiculously demanding upon computer hardware regardless of what operating system the browser is running upon.) Am I to understand correctly that some things that used to be hyperlinks on certain parts of IMDb are suddenly no longer hyperlinks? I didn't notice anything sudden in that regard. A lot of hyperlinks were replaced with event-driven HTML Elements with location-modifying event listeners, at least a year ago, the way I recall.

@jeorj_euler​ i used smartphones as an example of bad design paradigm, and flash as a joke from the times when sites went all in on flash. flash is discontinued but the mentality remains. imdb is bloated with nonsense and bad design today, but even the previous iterations were terrible. the urls to the pages are filled with junk, and when you use search or your ratings or someone's ratings it's basically just a list you can't refine anything about. the url generated is just a string of garbage and you can't leap 100 pages or to the date. not with GUI not by inputting that into the url the pure HTML may have been replaces with php or css or whatever bloat is in fashion now, long ago, but at the beginning of the year at least everything was clickable and intractable, now it is not. and always is bugged and doesn't even display information until you click show more 50 times

Thanks.