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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 06/08/06 18:15
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Ed Mulroy blurted out atop a comprehensive quote
(and we know what that usually indicates on usenet):
> > Recommendation is let the user decide where or not to open link in
> > new window.
>
> This is not a question of how one might choose to read a newspaper.
The web rarely is. Readers have a much wider range of potential
choices, regardless of the author's wishes and intentions. Sure, not
all of them make those choices...
> The purpose of the site is to present a vaction property to
> prospective tenants.
I don't see what's so special about that, relative to anything else
you might be trying to sell to readers of your site.
> A separate window is used for off-site links is so that the property
> site will remain on his screen.
You can't know that. On screens of limited size, or where the reader
has chosen to run their browser in fullscreen, your new window will
overlay the one they were using, and some have no idea how to get
back.
> Prospective tenants are not particularly computer literate. Once
> they leave a site a certain percentage of them will not be able to
> find it again.
Exactly my point. So you're aiming to make their Back function
inoperative, so that their new window is stuck on the external site,
and they maybe can't find their way back to yours? Hmmm.
> and deliberately without support for text-only, cell
> phone, PDA or blind-viewer browsers.
So you discriminate against disabled visitors? That's not very nice,
considering that the web can accommodate them without fuss, and
without causing any harm to your mainstream readers. Still, the
choice is yours (subject to applicable legislation).
[...big snip...]
It doesn't look as if you're going to learn much from this newsgroup.
bye
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