Re: [webmaster] Opening links in new windows is irritating

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Francis Irving wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:39:14AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Francis Irving wrote:
>>>> The PostgeSQL website often opens new windows for no
>>>> good reason.  Can you please change it so it doesn't?
>>>>
>>>> This has been considered bad practice since at least 1999.
>>>>     2. Opening New Browser Windows
>>>>     http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
>>>>
>>>> An example is after searching:
>>>>
http://search.postgresql.org/www.search?ul=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fdocs%2F8.0%2Fstatic%2F%25&q=delete+from
>>>> When I click on a link in the results, it has an _BLANK target, which
>>>> should be removed.
>>>
>>> I agree, but others don't, it seems.
>>
>> I love the website apart from this.
>>
>> Who disagrees?
>>
>> Note in particular that this behaviour differs from every other open
>> source documentation site I use -- PHP, Python, MySQL.
>
> Uh, I think Marc disagrees.  Anyone else?

The reason it was setup like that was so that you looked at the 'message'
from the search results in a seperate window, while still maintaining the
search results themselves ...

If I'm the only one that finds this convienent, its a 2 second job to
remove the TARGET tag ...

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