Hi Paul,
You're right of course: I do that too. However, I really do think that
most folk don't know about right-clicking in the way you describe, so
it's not so much a case of choosing as knowing that you can.
I suppose one could always put that option clearly as a line of text,
viz: "To open links in a new window . . . etc".
I dunno.
But thanks.
Bob
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
Paul Novitski wrote:
At 01:39 AM 8/25/2005, designer wrote:
All I can say is that, as a sighted viewer, if I encountered a site
with 100 links, each of which which opened in the same window, I'd be
outa there faster than you can say 'back button' :-)
I've been wondering of late if there is another way out of this:
just like we can change the colours etc by changing the CSS, (style
switching) how about if the user gets a choice by selecting certain
site characteristics at start up? Has anyone tried this and taken it
as far as choice of how new windows open?
Bob,
What I do routinely as a web user, when I don't want to lose the
current page, is to right-click on links to bring up the context menu
(mouse-keystroke combination on the Mac) and open them in a new window
(--> new tab in Firefox). This method of choosing how to open new
links is so simple and easy and as far as I know cross-browser, I
don't see much necessity in creating new methods for choosing the
open-path.
What are the situations in which the browser can't let you decide in
the moment to open a new window or not? One is javascript-driven
links which often mandate a new or old window and rob the user of the
ability to choose.
Regards,
Paul
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