Hi Bob, You make a good point. But the reason I don't use new windows isn't accesibility. It's an irritation at having new windows opened for me. Being a firefox user, I open in a new tab when I want to and in the current otherwise. People know what they want, generally, and are able to perform that actoin. The only popular non-tabbed browser is IE 6, where one can always open in a new window if one wants.
The case for mini-popups (smaller sized windows, sized through the javascript window.open()) is somewhat different - indeed they can often be quite useful. But if you're just opening a new window because it's what you want - I don't consider it useful. My two cents. mjec -- http://mine.mjec.net/ On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:48:17 -0000, designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm not 'doing a blog', but have started to put down some thoughts about > various areas of this 'new philosophy' which have me (as a newcomer of only > 4 months to 'standards') totally confused. The first endeavour concerns the > classic - opening new windows. My scribbling can be seen at: > > http://www.betasite.fsnet.co.uk/comment/scribblings.html > > I have not put this up to bring down the wrath of the evangelists, nor to > cause a list war, but to express my confusion and hopefully promote some > <em>reasoned</em> debate amongst intelligent web design folk. > > I am genuinely confused by this, but am open minded and amenable to being > convinced. > > Thanks, > > Bob McClelland, > Cornwall (U.K.) > www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************