Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 06/19/07 08:04

Scripsit dorayme:

> If you are asking how to do it on a Windows machine, I think
> maybe similar but perhaps a the Alt key. Look at Properties.

On IE 7, using a three-button mouse, you can just click on a click with the
middle button.

> You can put target="_blank" in your links (not kosher in Strict)
> and this is a handle that might trigger a new tab if the user
> (like me) sets the browser to so act.

Indeed. Thus, using the middle button is a simple and effective weapon
against target="_blank". However, not all users know this. Besides, there's
no comparable simple method for opening a link in the current window and the
current tab (i.e., using it as a normal link) if the link has
target="_blank". So target="_blank" is still a nuisance, especially to
novice users who easily get confused. (They try to use the Back button,
without realizing that a new window was thrown at them.)

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Back to original message]