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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 12/06/07 11:45
Pritam Barhate wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This question has been vexing me from quite some time now. When one
> links to the resources outside his/her website should the
> target="_blank" attribute be used for the <a> tag?
>
> Normally I use target="_blank" for anything that is outside my
> website. But this question bothers me even more when I am creating a
> list of resources. Since, while viewing these lists user will be more
> interested in the resources than my website.
>
> Recently I came across the following opinion a lot times:
>
> If the user wants to come back to your site he has the back button and
> also he can use the "Open in new window" option if he wants the linked
> resource to open in new window.
Exactly. And this is much more suitable than leaving a user who's being
browsing from site to site to site to finished up his session only to
discover that he now has a dozen windows to close because each site's
designer thought he needed to see the next site in a new window.
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