Hello Brian Let me answer using examples. Consider links that you may see in your gmail message (I notice you have one). They open a new tab or new window unlike gmail interface's own navigation links. There is a login session, and it so requires that the user is checking the emails and would always like to get back to the email window after navigating/ getting far to a different page. Hence it is context based and how your users, a majority of them prefer.
If it is a link in a blog page, and you are using intriguing links, consider what Jhon had said. Leave the choice to the user, and as everyone will learn through experience interacting with the web, eventually users can decide how and when they want to view a link, either same page or new page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46314 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
