Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 12/30/05 11:38

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Vhit wrote:

> I give users the choice to open in the current window or a new window .

We already have that choice, implemented in the browser (if it's a
browser where the concept of "window" means anything) when you do
*nothing*. Any additional action you might take is going to be
something different from what other pages do. Readers' life is too
short to have to learn a different navigation technique for every web
site or group of pages.

> Having tried various types of ways of doing it - but i've to find one
> that really works in terms of looking good and being clear in what it
> does without being intrusive or in your face .
>
> Its not a easy problem to solve .

It's easy. And cheap. Do nothing.

The HTML author's job is to offer marked-up content, optionally with
some rendering proposals. Attempting to control the user's browser or
user interface, particularly where you're trying to duplicate
functionality which is typically implemented in the browser itself, is
always problematical, and generally best avoided.[1]

IMHO and whatever.

[1] forms processing is somewhat of an exception, since you can't
really avoid having a user interface within the page.

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