Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi Guillaume,
> 
> We've had this discussion in the past already and Sergiu and others  
> made a strong argument against doing this. Their point is that it's  
> the user who should decide and all browsers have features to decide  
> whether to open a link in the same page or in another page and it  
> shouldn't be dictated to the user.

And I keep my opinion. -1.

> I think one solution would be to make this configurable. Then we need  
> to decide what would be the default (off probably).

+1

> 
> On Oct 30, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I'd like to propose that the default target option for link  
>> insertion in the
>> new WYSIWYG editor be as follows:
>>
>>   - Internal link: use the default target (not specified)
>>   - External Links: use target_blank to force opening the page in a  
>> new tab
>>   / window (at a later stage we could do the same thing that otehr  
>> wikis such
>>   as Confluence or MediaWiki and add a small icon showing that the  
>> links
>>   points to outside of the wiki)
>>
>> So that the user does not lose contact with the wiki.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>


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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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