Failure to use <target="_blank">  and/or right click to new window causes me
trouble with:
1) Password protected sites like Geocities' HTML editor, where use of the
"back" button gives a  "Data missing : post error"
message. I lost my whole first draft of my boids page this way.
2) Just about every site with a frame.
I am appreciative when link pages open OTHER sites in new windows, too.

The following are annoying:
1) Splash pages. How idiotic.  Would Yahoo have survived if every time I
went there I saw a 65 kb image which said "You're at Yahoo!" ?
2) Over use of new windows WITHIN one site.


Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <39fa9d18@news.povray.org>, "Mick Hazelgrove"
> <mic### [at] mhazelgrovefsnetcouk> wrote:
>
> > I hadn't realised how much people hate new windows appearing for
> > links. I rather like it as I don't lose contact with the parent site.
> > however there is always the back button.
> >
> > I was intending to do something similar to David Fontaine's virtual
> > gallery.
> >
> > Given the antipathy to the idea I don't think I'll bother.
>
> I actually prefer link pages that open other sites in new windows.
> One solution would be to offer pairs of links, a "Go to page" and a "New
> window with page" link. Have the URL text be the "go to page" link, and
> a little button following it be the "new window with page" link.
> Compact, and it should please everyone...this is what I plan to do when
> I get around to rebuilding my site.
>
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> Christopher James Huff
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