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Posted by Mark Parnell on 06/08/06 23:30
Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Ed Mulroy
<dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> declared in alt.html:
> Prospective tenants are not particularly
> computer literate.
That's a huge generalisation, and not necessarily an accurate one.
> Once they leave a site a certain percentage of them will
> not be able to find it again.
Especially if you open a new window. The back button is one of the first
functions (if not *the* first) anyone learns to use in their browser. By
opening a new window, you are breaking that functionality. You're also
inconveniencing anyone who *does* know enough to be able to open links
in a new window, as they no longer have the choice where to open it.
Then there's the issue of popup blockers of course.
> deliberately without support for text-only, cell
> phone, PDA or blind-viewer browsers.
Here in Australia (and numerous other countries) that *is*
discrimination as David described it, and is punishable by law.
> I have read many things which rail on similar to "the shackles of the table"
> but have not seen a viable reason for abandoning them. I am very open to
> and desirous of hearing your arguments to that end.
http://davespicks.com/essays/notables.html
http://www.workingwith.me.uk/table_free/seven_reasons_to_go_table_free
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Mark Parnell
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