On Friday 20 July 2007 07:44, Dave Lane wrote: > If I click on a link on their site I expect it to open in my current > window - if it insists on opening a new window, it pisses me off, > because that's not how I work. I see that approach as indicating a > designer still in a very IE5.5-6 mindset: primitive. Sites that try to > manipulate me don't pique my interest, they put me right off (and, > needless to say, I don't go back). > > Dave
There are valid cases for opening content from the same site in a new window. The most obvious is when logging into secure sections of web sites, like online banking. By forcing a new window that then generates the secure session and closing the window at the end of the session you prevent people from using the back button to re-access the secure content. The new window should also have all elements other than a scrollbar hidden so the window can't easily be used to continue surfing the Internet. IMHO this should become a "web convention" in the way the Internet has been commercialised. All online transactions should be conducted in their own window that is killed once the transaction is complete. -- Regards, Steve Bathurst Computer Solutions URL: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0407 224 251 .... _ ... (0)> ... / / \ .. / / . ) .. V__/_ Linux Powered! Registered Linux User #355382 ********************************************* "If you read the same things as others and say the same things they say, then you're perceived as intelligent. I'm a bit more independent and radical and consider intelligence the ability to think about matters on your own and ask a lot of skeptical questions to get at the real truth, not just what you're told it is." Apple's Inventor - Steve Wozniak 2006 ********************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
