John wrote:
Many marketing groups would never accept replacing the content of the current browser window of their site with the content of an external site. Is there some standard way to give the user control of "popups", such as a checbox (maybe somewhat obscured from visual browsers)?
Don't imagine that users of visual browsers are automatically free of disabilities. Think for instance about users with learning disabilities...they too would get confused by a new window being popped up, effectively breaking the back button navigation.
The best thing to do, if the client is absolutely adamant that new windows be popped up, is to give users enough direct clues that activating a link will indeed open a new window (e.g. adding "(opens in a new window)" to the link text of title attribute, adding an icon - for instance via css' background property - or similar)
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