open in non-active tab (`gf`, `C`) and open multiple links (`cf`) are missing link hints compared to `f`

SurfingKeys: 0.9.63 Browser: Chrome 81.0.4044.122 URL: https://www.golem.de/

Context

On some websites (e.g. https://www.golem.de), gf and C do not show all link hints, wheras f and cf do. I would expect them to behave the same.

Example for f which shows hints for the images and titles: and C which is missing those hints:

[DavidGretzschel]

To clarify (and update) the issue:

The title should make the distinction between the two separate behaviours in the f-group and the cf-group (which includes cf, gf, af and C).

f-group:

cf, gf, af, C group:

This is a big issue for me. It makes it really hard for me to intuitively use the more efficient vim-style navigation, since I can’t predict what can be navigated to. And I’m afraid, that the latter group being so pared down, forces me to use the mouse, anyway, since I can’t replace ctrl-click apparently. [I suppose, I could get around that with pressing yt to create a tab-copy and navigate to where I want from there, but it’s convoluted and some sites don’t load fast copies either.]

Afraid, I don’t have the insight to solve the technical problem underlying it. Just wanted to clarify the issue a little and emphasize, that it’s very important to me.

[brookhong]

When tabbed is true, current implementation expects that there is href on an element for Surfingkeys to open it in new tab, please see https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/blob/master/content_scripts/hints.js#L592-L600. Theose clickable elements without href will not be included in hints with tabbed: true, since it may not make sense to open it in a new tab, for example, those page-inside javascript actions.

Yes, this kind of assumption is not accurate, since some elements without href do have a target URL, but I currently haven’t had a good approach for that. Any suggestion that does work is welcomed.