External links in a presentation should open in a new tab about gitpitch

[gitpitch]

Just fyi, I've updated GitPitch to auto-translate all anchors within a slideshow to target _blank per suggestion. In fact the 1.x branch already did this but for some reason I pruned this code when releasing 2.x. Anyway, from now on regular Markdown link syntax is all you need.

[gitpitch]

There is a simple workaround to give you the behavior you want when people click on you links. You can replace implicit Markdown links in your PITCHME.md with HTML anchor syntax that uses a _blank target.

For example, based on the sample presentation you provided, replace this markdown in your PITCHME.md:

- https://github.com/terrywbrady/info

With this:

<a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/terrywbrady/info">- https://github.com/terrywbrady/info</a>

Note, this general approach is also mentioned in the HTML Slides page in the Wiki.

[terrywbrady]

This works as you describe. I had presumed I would need to rewrite the whole slide with the HTML syntax. This works well. I have updated my presentations.

[augnustin]

I don't consider the suggested workaround as acceptable. Changing a URL to a full <a> tag removes all the markdown readability.

I'd be in favor of having the following script executed in gitpitch:

Array.from(document.getElementByTagName('a')).forEach($link => {
  if ($link.hostname !== window.location.hostname) {
    $link.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
  }
});

And if you need more arguments, here are my reasons: https://augustin-riedinger.fr/en/resources/thoughts-on-target-blank/

[augnustin]

Great! Thanks for taking feedback into consideration!