On 01/08/06, Ed Seehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "solution" is to use a doctype that allows _blank. Or not to > create new windows, which is favoured from a useability point of view. > A lot of people these days have "popup blockers" installed and their > browsers won't open your new window. Darn, I promised no lecture, > didn't I. :-)
I agree, I wouldn't force a new window as well. With tabbed browings it is really annoying if a website is forcing you to open a link in a new window. I think the target attribute is deprecated in the strict doctypes for this exact reason. But don't quote me on this one. If you wanted to have external links open in a new window I would suggest that you identify the links as external through a litttle icon instead, like explained here: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/external/ This way the user can decide for himself if or not he wants to open the link in a new window. If you are tying to do a image gallery type of thing, therefore wanted to open new windows, I would recommend to use the Lightbox JS Script [1], it is pretty easy to set up and it degrades gracefully in case JavaScript is deactivated. [1] http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
