Posted by Stan McCann on 11/20/04 11:36

Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote in
news:mjyuf.290$i81.80@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com:

>> How many pages are you going to have that on? If one, no big deal
>> in the extra text required; if more, you surely aren't getting your
>> message across. If you need to give that simple of instruction
>> many times, I'd rethink either the instruction or the learning
>> ability of those I'm instructing.
>
> I don't know whether people reach a given page directly or through
> the home page, 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).

That's not a large percentage and being an instructional aide, the
text is perfectly appropriate to tell the user what is going to
happen. This would make opening a window appropriate. I still stand
by, in normal usage, opening a new window should not be done. It
annoys me, and I'd guess a large proportion of people browsing to have
to go close that extra unwanted window. Those links go largely
unnoticed now using FF and extensions that limit the ability to open a
new window without notice.

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Webmaster/Computer Center Manager, NMSU at Alamogordo
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Those that understand binary and those that don't.

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