But that is exactly the point. The www is a different space than the desktop and web pages are not desktop apps (I fear an attack coming soon but I think most people know where I'm coming from here). The help application is the desktop space/mindspace, the contents of a browser window is the www space/mindspace. Therefore you cannot compare them. The help application opens a new window because it is designed to help you interact with the application you requested help with. It would be pretty dumb to delete the thing that you requested help with to be replaced with the help modal.!!

But web pages rarely have that same relationship. You open a link to follow the train of thought through to that link, not as a parallel experience, which opening another window would entail. On the rare occasions when you do need to open a fresh window for a parallel experience, you can do so using a functionality and not a structural markup as long as you explain that is what will happen..


On Mar 27 2008, at 17:59, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

Thomas Thomassen wrote:
Poping up windows makes assumtion of the user's behaviour.

As far as opening windows -- click on the Help menu item in your
browser or another desktop application right now, and tell me if
the help screen takes over your entire application window space,
or, just possibly, *opens a new window*. Wow. Maybe this *is* an
acceptable behavior *for some circumstances*.

Horses for courses...
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