TYPO3 Core

Currently a TMENU for example doesn't use (and doesn't provide similar functionality) base-functionality for typolinks. For example it is not easily possible to make use of a target set for external links. Typolinks default to use what is set in config.extTarget and allow overriding it for a specific typolink.

It would be great to have TMENUITEM support a "typolink"-configuration-property as well and use the typolink-defaults. As such extTarget would work out of the box (like you might expect it). Migration-path for people wanting the old behaviour would be to configure the TMENUITEM-typolink-setting not to honour extTarget.

TMENUITEM has a target-setting, but that's not specific for external targets. There is no extTarget-setting, just target. So we'll need to check how target should behave in the future then - maybe be a default across intTarget/extTarget if those are not explicitly set otherwise or so.