It's set up like that in https://github.com/rigoneri/syte/blob/21ed38790bbfab3e7...

rcsorensen on June 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site th...

It's set up like that in https://github.com/rigoneri/syte/blob/21ed38790bbfab3e7a7321... .

Could be changed to only preventDefault/stopPropagation if it doesn't match one of the specially tagged links, or by setting up a different selector for the specially handled links.