x/website: download button opens new tab

[willfaught]

What operating system and processor architecture browser are you using (go env)?

macOS Monterey 12.4 (21F79), Safari 15.5 (17613.2.7.1.8)

What did you do?

Went to https://go.dev. Clicked on Download.

What did you expect to see?

The same tab navigate to https://go.dev/dl/.

What did you see instead?

A new tab open and navigate to https://go.dev/dl/.

Please don't spam with extra tabs. I just want to go to the page. I can Cmd-click to open a new tab if I need to.

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/416177 mentions this issue: _content: stop the download button from opening /dl in a new tab

[jinhongy]

This suggestion make a lot of sense. We opened in a new tab is because by that time it opened the page in "golang.org". Since we have merge this two sites, we should not open in a new tab as the page is no longer an external page.

For the downloading, we can also consider downloading the package based on the operating system instead of taking developers to the "All download" page since we merged these two sites.

[hyangah]

Thanks for the background.

For general Download/installation UX improvement see

#52491
#52487
#47578

If we can detect the underlying architectures correctly, utilizing go.dev/doc/install (that already detects OS) instead of go.dev/dl is another option.