[ale] New Tab

Jim Popovitch yahoo at jimpop.com
Sat May 19 18:57:27 EDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 18:42 -0400, George Carless wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:11:43PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > Both methods are equivalent; and equivalently deprecated, too. There
> > is no way to specifically spawn a new tab. That is up to the client.
> > 
> > While your method of opening a new window works, I would like to
> > recommend something that doesn't annoy the hell out of those of us who
> > dislike web pages behaving in undesired ways. If you do <a
> > href="linked_page.html" onclick="window.open('linked_page.html');
> > return false;"> instead, the page will open in a new window if the
> > client has javascript enabled. If they do not, then the link will
> > still open.
> 
> Better yet - let the user decide, whether or not javascript is 
> enabled. 

Even Better, let the user decide if they want the page to even open up
in a new tap or window (shift+click, or not).   I tend to dislike others
deciding that their link should spawn a new browser window... a'la
pop-up spam.

-Jim P.




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