diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8d460b549..e6e990f4f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "truck-shapeops",
  "ttf-parser",
  "ureq",
+ "web-sys",
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
  "winresource",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c4c8b5098..8308f3d68 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ ureq = { version = "3", default-features = false, features = ["rustls"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")'.dependencies]
 console_error_panic_hook = "0.1"
+# Opening external URLs (Donate / feedback / release notes) via window.open.
+web-sys = { version = "0.3", features = ["Window"] }
 # Browsers without WebGPU (e.g. Firefox by default) need wgpu's WebGL2 backend;
 # `webgl` enables it. `fira-sans` embeds the default UI font — the web has no
 # system fonts, so without it all iced text (ribbon labels, command line) is
diff --git a/src/app/commands.rs b/src/app/commands.rs
index f6b25b905..578dba801 100644
--- a/src/app/commands.rs
+++ b/src/app/commands.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
             && !matches!(
                 cmd,
                 "NEW" | "OPEN" | "EXIT" | "QUIT" | "REPORT" | "CHANGELOG" | "ABOUT"
-                    | "PLUGINS" | "PLUGINMANAGER"
+                    | "PLUGINS" | "PLUGINMANAGER" | "DONATE"
             )
         {
             self.command_line
diff --git a/src/sys.rs b/src/sys.rs
index 48149bede..58e0a2697 100644
--- a/src/sys.rs
+++ b/src/sys.rs
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@
 // Small platform shims for things the desktop build does natively but the web
 // (wasm) build must handle differently or skip.
 
-/// Open a URL in the user's browser. On the desktop this launches the default
-/// handler; on the web the app already *is* in a browser, so for now this is a
-/// no-op (a real implementation would call `window.open`).
+/// Open a URL in the user's browser. The desktop launches the default handler;
+/// the web opens a new tab (the button click is a user gesture, so it isn't
+/// caught by the pop-up blocker). Focus of the opened page is left to the
+/// OS / browser.
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
 pub fn open_url(url: &str) {
     let _ = open::that(url);
 }
 
 #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
-pub fn open_url(_url: &str) {
-    // TODO(web): web_sys::window().open_with_url(_url)
+pub fn open_url(url: &str) {
+    if let Some(window) = web_sys::window() {
+        let _ = window.open_with_url_and_target(url, "_blank");
+    }
 }
 
 /// Turn an `rfd` file handle into a `PathBuf` the rest of the app keys on.