Thanks Wayne, appreciate the risk ;-)
What you are describing though is your personal preference for opening new windows - which I am all in favour for. I prefer tabbed window browsers myself and open alot of tabs - and therein lies my point.
Opening my own windows suits me and my workflow for the variety of computers I work on. Having someone else do it is annoying, distruptive, and rude.
But I will change my opinion if there is good reason to... especially one related to usability.
./tdw
On 6/10/04 12:58 PM, Wayne Godfrey wrote:
Okay, I'll stick my neck out here for a list chopping.
I personally like opening a new window whenever I'm web surfing. It's something that I got into a habit or doing long ago and far away. I'm still waiting for a big, honking G5 to be sitting under my fingertips, but until that day I'm stuck on a G3 Mac at OS9 on IE5.1.7. I hate the IE interface (actually, I hate all browser interfaces) and I close it down to nothing but the address bar. The back, forward, stop and reload buttons are available in the top left hand corner, but the only one I really use is the reload button. Even with the tab browsers that I've tried, I still end up opening a new tab more often than using the back and forward buttons. This is just the way I ended up traveling the web, I'm sure that others have their own "ways" as well. I've discussed this with my partners and others and they all like the "open a new window" concept. I fully understand the other point of view and why the W3C believes what they believe. I've never been ticked off by a site opening a link in a new window, but I sure as heck have been royally unhappy with pop-up, under and through windows as well as poorly coded java script that freeze my machine or web sites that only work in IE for windows. In fact, those are much higher sins (IMHO) than opening a link in a new window...
gulp....
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