If you want to do comparisons, then you might want to have an item created in a new window. Tabs are great, but sometimes you want to compare items using multiple windows. There might also be some legal reasons for completely separating one source from another source.
Chauncey On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Jens Meiert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Should the rule that links should always open in the same window be >> revisited? > > Going for the very short answer: No, as this choice should be left to > the user. Talking studies I do not know any that does not verify what > Nielsen suggested in another article, namely only to open new windows > for non-web documents [1] (albeit there might be other, rare > exceptions […]). > > > [1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html > > -- > Jens Meiert > http://meiert.com/en/ > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
