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Posted by dorayme on 12/07/07 22:44
In article <no7n2wvme3tk.73uvrzuyruwr$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
>
> > In article <fjb4pf$mjn$1@aioe.org>,
> > +mrcakey <mrcakey@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> >
> >> the very clear consensus is that using target="_blank" is a BAD THING
> >
> >> I think, if you HAVE to link to an outside site and you still want your
> >> users to come back then this is one time using frames is acceptable
> >
> > (1) The very clear consensus is that using target="_blank" is a
> > BAD THING
> >
> > (2) If you HAVE to link to an outside site and you still want
> > your users to come back then this is one time using frames is
> > acceptable
> >
> > (3) Most sites DO link to outside
> >
> > (4) Most site authors WANT users to come back
> >
> > (5) Most sites should use frames (from 2, 3 and 4)
> >
> > (6) If you use frames and want to link to outside, you use
> > target="_blank"
> >
> > (7) Using target="_blank" is a GOOD THING
> >
> > ergo
> >
> > (8) The consensus that using target="_blank" is a BAD THING is
> > false
>
> Nah, point 2 is false, rendering the conclusion at point 5
> non-existent, making point 3, 4 and 6 irrelevant, point 7 meaningless,
> and thus leaving us with the original at point 1: opening outbound
> links in a new window is a BAD THING :-)
I guess, then, you don't appreciate my reductio ad absurdum. If
you don't, there are not many others that will, given you are one
of the sharpest. Perhaps this will help to give you a better
understanding of it:
It is not me that asserts the truth of (2). This is asserted by
the person to whom I am replying. (2) is an assertion. But I did
not assert it. Lets go though the whole thing:
+mrcakey comes along and says both (1) and (2).
So I put them both down to see where such a conjunction leads to.
And if you look closely, it leads to 7 and 8 which shows that
there is something wrong with believing both 1 and 2. This type
of argument is sometimes called a reductio ad absurdum.
--
dorayme
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