Re: [webmaster] Opening links in new windows is irritating

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Francis Irving wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:39:14AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>> Francis Irving wrote:
> >>>> The PostgeSQL website often opens new windows for no
> >>>> good reason.  Can you please change it so it doesn't?
> >>>>
> >>>> This has been considered bad practice since at least 1999.
> >>>>     2. Opening New Browser Windows
> >>>>     http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
> >>>>
> >>>> An example is after searching:
> >>>>
http://search.postgresql.org/www.search?ul=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fdocs%2F8.0%2Fstatic%2F%25&q=delete+from
> >>>> When I click on a link in the results, it has an _BLANK target, which
> >>>> should be removed.
> >>>
> >>> I agree, but others don't, it seems.
> >>
> >> I love the website apart from this.
> >>
> >> Who disagrees?
> >>
> >> Note in particular that this behaviour differs from every other open
> >> source documentation site I use -- PHP, Python, MySQL.
> >
> > Uh, I think Marc disagrees.  Anyone else?
>
> The reason it was setup like that was so that you looked at the 'message'
> from the search results in a seperate window, while still maintaining the
> search results themselves ...
>
> If I'm the only one that finds this convienent, its a 2 second job to
> remove the TARGET tag ...

I have never seen another web site behave this way, and I do think it is
annoying.

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