http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2004/11/no-more-target_blank/ Jouni Heikniemi's IT adventures Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:59:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2004/11/no-more-target_blank/comment-page-1/#comment-133 phil smears Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:08:02 +0000 http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2004/11/no-more-target_blank/#comment-133 "So if you are ever involved in large corporate or government sites then target="_blank" is indeed you friend :-)" Strange to say that as .gov.uk sites have to be AA compliant and opening up new windows without informing user would preclude that. "So if you are ever involved in large corporate or government sites then target="_blank" is indeed you friend :-)"
Strange to say that as .gov.uk sites have to be AA compliant and opening up new windows without informing user would preclude that.

]]> http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2004/11/no-more-target_blank/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Richard Bourke Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:44:08 +0000 http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2004/11/no-more-target_blank/#comment-132 I second the use of target="_blank". We implemented without it for a large goverment site and it came back as a high-priority production bug almost immediately. So if you are ever involved in large corporate or government sites then target="blank" is indeed you friend :-) I second the use of target="_blank".
We implemented without it for a large goverment site and it came back as a high-priority production bug almost immediately.
So if you are ever involved in large corporate or government sites then target="blank" is indeed you friend :-)

]]> http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2004/11/no-more-target_blank/comment-page-1/#comment-131 clx Fri, 26 May 2006 09:11:05 +0000 http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2004/11/no-more-target_blank/#comment-131 No more target="_blank" you say...imagine that my company creates web-based applications - huge in size - for logistics companyes...To make the choise for the user is important: some don't know, some don't care, some don't have time for this, and all users do the inevitable: get stalked in details like this one here. If you create something for yourself, go ahead: make it as you want; for the common user, make it as straight as possible; make sure he gets to the target in 99.99% of the existing ways of operation the browser. No more target="_blank" you say…imagine that my company creates web-based applications – huge in size – for logistics companyes…To make the choise for the user is important: some don't know, some don't care, some don't have time for this, and all users do the inevitable: get stalked in details like this one here. If you create something for yourself, go ahead: make it as you want; for the common user, make it as straight as possible; make sure he gets to the target in 99.99% of the existing ways of operation the browser.

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