Posted by Rob McAninch on 01/03/06 22:51

Jose>:
>> How many pages are you going to have that on?

>
> I don't know whether people reach a given page directly or through the
> home page

Seldom through the homepage, for the typical site.

> so I imagine 'Trick click to open in a new window' would be
> on every page that had links for which this would be useful (which is
> maybe six out of twenty).

I wouldn't bother adding this to the pages. To make it noticeable
you would likely distract from the content of the page. And 'trick
clicking' works differently for different devices anyhow.

You might write a tutorial on the subject as its own page and then
try to publicize it to teach the web at large. But throwing even a
link to it in the introductory to your 'main' content doesn't sound
like a good idea.

One thought is that a user who doesn't already know how to open a
new window/tab may well be confused if you do it for him.

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Rob McAninch
http://rock13.com

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