On Apr 28, 2007, at 7:37 AM, Smylers wrote:
Spartanicus writes:
As a user I detest new windows opening without having chosen to do
that myself.
Me too, but...
Surely users always have the final say anyway?
Yes, but...
Most of them don't know it. I hope this is changing, but part of my
job the past 10 years has been leading workshops demonstrating
aspects and uses of the web to people in non-IT professions, and very
few of them know this stuff. The people on this list take it for
granted that they can right-click and open in a new tab or window,
but I don't believe that feature is used often. The people in my
workshops just put up with whatever the website does. (It's painful
and frustrating to me, yes.) I don't have any data to offer -- just
anecdotes -- and I would assume that more younger people use those
features of browsers, but still we can't assume that "users,"
broadly, are even aware they exist.
I don't know which side of the debate that puts me on. Just offering
the observation.
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David Walbert
LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill
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