Posted by Igal on 10/30/06 15:24

generally you are right, the user should have 100% freedom in this
case, if he wants to open the AD in a new tab, window, whatever.
problem is most users don't really know how to use tabbed browsing, and
probably be annoyed when pressing a link (with the left button) and the
site they were browsing on disappears and instead some AD site takes
it's place on browser screen. plus, at this point they leave My site,
and go to the one i'm advertising.

On Oct 30, 5:14 pm, Benjamin Niemann <p...@odahoda.de> wrote:
> support tabs. This way users can decide on their own, if they want to use
> tabs or windows - whatever they like more.
>
> You don't need target='_blank' either - then the user will not be annoyed by
> new tabs/windows, if they don't want them. If they want to open a link in a
> new tab/window, it is just a click away, e.g. clicking with the middle
> mousebutton or 'Open in new window/tab' of the context menu.
>
> You should also note that you cannot get document to validate again HTML
> strict, if you banner system inserts target attributes.
>
> --
> Benjamin Niemann
> Email: pink at odahoda dot de
> WWW:http://pink.odahoda.de/

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