Simple popup window with external URL

I am trying to open a popup window showing the contents of an external url. The popup window shown has this external url appended to the url of my webapp path, however. What am I doing wrong here: h:outputLink onclick=window.open('#{nextBean.description.url}', '#{nextBean.name}',

2nd Try: s:inputTextAjax does not render validation errors

The example jsp code I am using from http://www.irian.at/myfaces-sandbox/inputAjax.jsp.sourcerenders an ajax-aware input box. However, when I set the value and the backing-bean-validator updates, nothing happens to my form. The Pulse icon rotates and rotates and my log file simply says:

Tomahawk Sandbox: s:inputTextAjax does not display error msg when field focus changes

Does anyone have an idea why the s:inputTextAjax tag might not display the error message when the input field focus changes? I have copied the source code directly from http://www.irian.at/myfaces-sandbox/inputAjax.jsp.source h:panelGrid h:outputText styleClass="standard_bold"