Stephen Stagg:
browsers with easy settings allowing you to over-ride the
site-specific link behaviors, this way, authors could suggest a
default action for a link and then people who passionately care about
their windows can override it, result; everyone happy.
There is a default action for links - they open in the same window =).
Users can choose to open them if required. Same result, opposite
approach.
Not every user really cares about browsers - they are a tool to do a
specific job, much like pen and paper, or a phone - they want to use it
and be done with it, not fiddle with endless pref's and options.
Kevin Futter:
I open a Flash-based music player in a new window - a small pop-up.
Pretty sure you should be able to prevent a flash movie from playing
onload... I accept your point about having persistent music player with
the caveat that a music site may be a specialist type site for a
specialist audience - In the same way that I accept flash based
experiential sites are appropriate for flash designers for example.
kind regards
Terrence Wood.
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