On 12/27/11 11:26 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
Help and confirmation pop-ups are very much special cases.
Heh, it's always about the "special cases" :-)
What is a continuation of the content, though? I wonder if the crux of the argument here is that some of us (maybe the longer-serving webmasters?) think a link can be a continuation despite it going to another site. After all, it's the world-wide web, one giant multi-authored multi-part hypertext document collection.
I was considering "continuation" to be a segment of a whole, in the sense of "Part 2 of 3", where it basically *is* linear order, to use your term.
PDFs aren't part of hypertext and Adobe Reader is badly-designed in several ways, so I'd ignore that. Meanwhile, neither my microblog or webmail clients open links into new windows: maybe if you prefer that behaviour, you prefer different clients to me.
Your "microblog" client is also a browser? Interesting; mind telling us what it is exactly? And regardless, many if not most desktop apps handle URLs by launching a different app (== different window) to display them.
Dear readers, please let me know your views on whether the web is one document collection or many,
I'd say the distinction is irrelevant; the issue is whether there are differences in the relationships *between documents* significant enough to justify different display behavior. > how many years you've been webmastering 18 -- but with the wind chill factor it feels like less :-)
and if/when you think links should open new windows - I really wonder if they are related somehow.
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