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Old January 25th 05, 02:16 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Dave Arquati Dave Arquati is offline
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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Tom Anderson) wrote:


What was actually winding me up, though, was not on-load popups, which
Firefox suppresses very effectively, but target-new links - where you
click on a link and it gives you the target in a new window. This is
completely and utterly wrong, worthless, irritating, unusable, evil,
bad, selfish and generally not on behaviour.



It always seems a good idea to me that links off a site should open a new
window.


In Internet Explorer it's not a terrible idea as opening a link a new
window is an alien concept to many users and involves right-clicking and
choosing the option.

However, in the newer browsers which support tabs (like Firefox) then
opening a new tab with a middle-click is a much more natural browsing
process and auto-opening a new window becomes annoying when you have
mentally set aside single-click as "this tab" and middle-click as "new tab".

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