I would argue the case that it may be sensible to open a new window for PDF's. There was sufficient evidence for a UK government department I have worked extensively with, to include this as a standard. The rationale behind this is simply that once presented with a PDF the user has the experience of being in a different application, and may be inclined to beleive that the web site had been left behind / shut down. This is not a case of a floating pop up, but of course is a new tab opened in the browser, indicating that the page launching the app is still present and available for use
In such circumstances It is best to use transitional doc type than to get too anally retentive about having to have a strict doc type. The user doesn't care a hoot about doctype, though they are very interested in the experience and usability of a site -- Regards - Rob Raising web standards : http://ele.vation.co.uk Linking in with others : http://linkedin.com/in/robkirton On 13/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
------------------------------ *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *James Jeffery *Sent:* Friday, July 13, 2007 8:32 AM *To:* wsg@webstandardsgroup.org *Subject:* Re: [WSG] To target or not Id say dont use pop-ups, nobody likes them eeeew! :P I agree - in this day and age it makes far more sense to show and hide a div (or whatever) on your page than to throw a whole new page unless you have reams of info to display. Mike ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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