Websites that break middle click are evil

So today I was browsing reddit and saw a post that linked to a tweet that contained two images.

I wanted to send those images to a friend on steam, but I didn't want or care about the tweet, I just wanted to send the images.

If I clicked them, I'd get some in page lightshow box with the images... lame and not helpful.

If I middle clicked them, nothing would happen.

If I just used the images embedded in the tweet page, it would be the small thumbnail.

I tried forcing mobile, thinking that would work, but only one image would show, and clicking it forced me back into desktop, and showed the light box.

Seriously, It is not fucking hard to make a page with some fancy pop up box that can fall back to opening the content in a tab on middle click or if javascript is disabled.

You make it an a href link with a real url, do your fancy shit on the onclick= event, and browsers will fall back to opening the url in your link on middle click, and doing the onclick action other wise.

#woah

Was that so fucking hard?

Yes, your fancy desktop application like web page is nice, but you know what's nicer? Tabs.

I didn't get 16GB of ram for my desktop for your website to forbid me using that ram on chrome tabs. Come on!