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Posted by dorayme on 09/05/07 06:59
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<1188973711.175101.108210@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
marckatsambis@gmail.com wrote:
> > Look at the choices you have in your FF preferences for "opening
> > new pages". I will leave you to others to be drawn and quartered
> > for not knowing about the evils of _blank
> >
> > --
> > dorayme
>
> Weird! My Firefox preferences seem to match those of my colleagues FF
> preferences, but her browser displays the link within a new window as
> it is meant to.
>
You do not say what her prefs are or yours?
> What is the particular setting I should be looking for? And why is
> _blank evil? What should I use instead?
I have:
<http://netweaver.com.au/test/pics/ff_prefs.png>
I may have also downloaded an optional panel called Tab Mix Plus
Options. Google up for it. you might like it.
About _blank. If you are an author, try to avoid it because it is
too presumptive to think you know better than the person who is
looking at your webpage. If he wants to see a link in a new page,
he has the powers right there in his browser. On a Mac, eg, you
can simply control or right click and a little context menu comes
up and you can choose how to open a link, in a separate window,
in a tab, in the same window, on the toilet roll, wherever.
On principle, the user knows best. Best not to assume he is a
complete schmuck, he will resent you for it if he is not. He
might very well be irritated to see windows opening unexpectedly.
In fact, there was a court case recently where a woman died of a
heart attack from the surprise, another (a man this time) died
from going into cataclysmic spasms from the confusion. The
defence tried to call an "expert witness", but it did no good
when the court heard that he had recently been seen skiing in
purple pants trying to outrun the police. The deceased's family
cleaned up.
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dorayme
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