This is turning into a regular developer blog, I'm really getting into keeping you all updated on the development of the Bitshares DEX Astro UI, so thanks for stopping by and I appreciate all the upvotes!
So let's get into today's topic!
Improving User Experience (UX) and user security!
I was looking over my previous blog post and upon clicking a link to the Bitshares AstroJS UI repo, I was prompted with an interesting dialog by Hive:
I thought to myself, this is pretty dang cool, this simple external hyperlink dialog probably helps prevent a wide variety of phishing and malicious link clicks, neat!
So, since we've recently introduced several external hyperlinks to the Bitshares Astro UI, I figured we should implement something similar so that the user isn't annoyed by a new tab launching semi-unexpectedly.
I set about creating the external link component using react and shadcn, and after a bit of elbow grease I'd managed to replace all external text and button hyperlinks with this new component.
So when the user clicks on what was previously a raw hyperlink, they're now shown the following:
Awesome stuff! Now the user is reminded that they're attempting to navigate to an external resource before they do so!
A big shout out to the Hive blockchain for inspiring this small but important security improvement to the Bitshares Astro DEX UI!
What do you think of this change?
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