Altair: href opening new browser window/tab

[williamducfer]

Hello,

In the code below, is it possible to change the href behaviour to opening the URL in a new browser window/tab?

import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data
from urllib.parse import urlencode

def make_google_query(name):
    return "https://www.google.com/search?" + urlencode({'q': '"{0}"'.format(name)})

cars = data.cars()
cars['url'] = cars['Name'].apply(make_google_query)

alt.Chart(cars).mark_circle(size=60).encode(
    x='Horsepower',
    y='Miles_per_Gallon',
    color='Origin',
    href='url',
    tooltip=['Name', 'url']
)

[jakevdp]

No, there's no way to do this, unfortumately. See https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/issues/3795