> You're right, Patrick, but life is a series of compromises. I spend a lot > of effort in getting users to my site, and I don't want to go sending them > away again with a link on my site. If they want to click on a link > external to my site, they get a new window so their existing window stays in > my site. > > It's not accessible, that's true, but if they stay inside my site, no new > windows open. And I'm not going to go sending 97% of users out of my site > with a link, just so 3% can have an accessible access to that one or two > links. >
OK. Let's forget about accessibility for a moment then. The back button is one of the most commonly used navigational tools. By opening new windows you disable that feature. You're hindering usability and actually making it more effort for people to come back to your site. It's just not possible to lock people into your site. If they want to go away from it, they're going to. If they want to come back to it, that's great but keeping your site in the background isn't going to help that at all - they know they should be able to reach it by a 'click' or two of the back button. ---------------- Patrick Griffiths (PTG) http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/ http://www.htmldog.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
