Andy Harris - 05 July 2008 01:23 AM

rokker - 04 July 2008 01:58 PM

that still turns you guys off? sometimes, some sites don’t let you “back” so easy…

Yep, it does here. I can honestly say that I’m far less likely to ever go back to a site that makes new windows open, and there are a lot of people like me. However, I don’t know of a single person that gets annoyed when a new window doesn’t open, especially seeing as they have this choice anyway. So that’s how I look at it, at least where I have a choice in the matter.

is there a code like target=“blank” that will open in a new tab? and would that be preferable to opening a new window?

For some reason I’m thinking it causes a new tab by default in Firefox, but bizarrely I don’t know for sure! I’ll find out. But yes, a new tab would be annoying, just not as annoying (for me anyway)

Hi guys,

Saw this thread. Take the nofollow plugin and rewrite it do instead of rel=nofollow target=_blank and you’re there.

There you go.

Regards

But that would make the document invalid, so not a good option for XHTML strict.

So add: onclick=“window.open(this.href); return false;”

Valid XHTML and doing the same trick..

kjdekoning - 05 July 2008 10:37 AM

So add: onclick=“window.open(this.href); return false;”

Valid XHTML and doing the same trick..

wikked, i’m not sure if i’ll try that yet… but you guys have now pushed me into checking my code for VALID XHTML (thanx Mark)

going through each template to correct all the hundreds of errors has been a huuuuge learning experience, and it ain’t done yet!

wow, the more i learn about html/css/xhtml/EE, the more i don’t know…

what a beautiful life ignorant bliss was…..

for anyone who is in the same boat as me, check your site’s validity at:
http://validator.w3.org

kjdekoning - 05 July 2008 10:37 AM

So add: onclick=“window.open(this.href); return false;”

Valid XHTML and doing the same trick..

Thats another way of doing it certainly. Personally I prefer to keep my javascripts external to the HTML docs so I still favour the jQuery version if it absolutely needs to be done.