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you are leaving this site or - pbererafly - opens the offsite link in a new window. It's just as easy to use command-W to close a new window as it is to use right-click or command-click to open a new window so I don't see any difference in the number of steps.And, since a lot of referenced offsite links do NOT give the HREF when one is reading the page (oh, sure, one can look at the status window, but isn't that an extra step too?) then it seems to me that it's a favor to open the offsite link in a new window since it's basically an unknown link. On the other hand, if the link is referenced with an actual URL in brackets - then the user should have a real clue as to where he/she is being sent.My preference is to provide target equals new when I refer someone offsite as well as to provide the same new window when I'm using a self-referential URL which is embedded.Yes, it's personal preference. Just as is my distaste for tabbed browsing. I don't want anymore windows open than those I choose and a tab-enabled browser is no better to me than Windows extra instances of the same browser showing in the task bar - it's not helpful and though it slows down screen clutter it doesn't fit my work habits - which admittedly have been developed over the last 11 years since the first instance of Mosaic on the Mac.It's true, I'm a Mac user, so I never even think about such things as a single program occupying the entire screen - which may explain why most Windows users don't ever really multitask - they've never been introduced to the concept of overlapping windows in the same program or different program windows overlapping.But, thanks, Michael, at least now I know why your preferences don't match my work habits and had already become used to command-clicking on any link on your site.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Dipan
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
19 december 2014, 01:31:13
AUTHOR'S IP LOGGED
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