CMS 5.2.0-beta1. Regression test: LinkField UI/UX enhancements

[sabina-talipova]

Description

There are some failed tests that is not bugs or problem. They are more desired enhancements that can be done in LinkField.
Here the list of failed tests:

• Open in new window should change to open in new tab
• I can't see an external icon with the My Page link. it's expected to show as it has been set to open in a new tab.
• Phone Link validation: I should not be able to add letters in the text field. There's no error message when I try to create invalid phone link.

Note:

Perhaps we should think about the expediency of making these changes and if not then close this ticket.

[GuySartorelli]

I can't see an external icon with the My Page link

Do you mean on the front-end?
This would be up to the developers to add theming for that. There's no icon for this added by default in the template.

[GuySartorelli]

Phone Link validation

I've removed it from this card. See #252
We explicitly decided to only have phone number be required for now - additional validation (if we add any) will be under that card.

[maxime-rainville]

Open in new window should change to open in new tab

Looking at the official spec, it doesn't say whether it should be a new tab or a new window.

Mozilla just list this description as:

_blank: Usually a new tab, but users can configure browsers to open a new window instead.

I vaguely remember that when Firefox first introduced tab browsing 2+ decades ago, you used to be able to give it a different attribute that would control if the link would open in a new tab or a new window (yes, I'm that old).

My gut feeling is that most users will understand "tab" and "window" to be functionally the same.

I can't see an external icon with the My Page link. it's expected to show as it has been set to open in a new tab.

I don't know that we want to have a "this link will open in a new tab" icon. This would probably cause confusing with "External Link" icon.

[maxime-rainville]

I'm running a quick internal survey to see if there's a net preference "open in new window" and "open in new tab".