Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/20/07 18:33

idiotprogrammer wrote:
> Hi, my boss has told me I need to put "target_new" for all external
> hyperlinks.
>
> I find this to be bothersome and contrary to current web trends. But I
> can find no articles or recommendations to back me up here.

It feels like there aren't any recommendations on how to do with this, but
people does as they wish.

IMHO it depends much on the page from where the link is to what kind of page
it is the link points at. If you have some longer text where you make
references to other pages, I would use target=_new, this way you can continue
to read the article at the same time as you can take a hasty look at the
reference.
While if you have a link page, then I want to come to the page directly
without opening a new window/tab.


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//Aho

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