I view sites that take it upon themselves to spawn new windows in about the same vein as sites that automatically resize my window or move it around. It's too presumptuous.
Keep your code off my browser. I can anticipate how links on any given site will behave based on past experience with other websites. Past experience tells me that a single click on a link opens that link in that window. But past experience also tells me that hyperlinks can be opened in baroque ways if I choose, depending on the controls my browser provides and my situational preference. If I prefer to open links in a new window or a new tab, I can do so with no trouble; but it's my choice, not the site's. Automatically targeting links to a new window is draconian. It can't be circumvented. It enforces a particular conception of appropriate behavior. If I prefer links to open in some other way I'm out of luck. Even when I don't have a preference, the behavior is usually unexpected because by default external links look no different than internal links. If an object behaves differently it should look different. Some sites get this right but generally there's no way to anticipate whether a link is going to suddenly spawn a window. So I expect them to behave themselves. Even if there weren't philosophical objections, the practical problems of users not realizing a new window had been opened and then subsequently being confused about the disabled back button should be enough to discourage the behavior. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31169 ________________________________________________________________ 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
