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dion

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Dion Almaer is the Editor-in-Chief for TheServerSide.com, and is an enterprise Java evangelist

Standardizing on links that open a new window vs. in the same window

Posted: Jul 8, 2004 9:05 PM

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I don't know about you, but I have gotten into the mode of "open in new tab" or "open in new window" for some links that I come across. One of the annoyances is that you don't often know if a link is target="elsewhere" or javascript:doSomethingWickedAndOpenANewWindow(). So, I wish there was a way to mark the difference. We could have a new pseudo part to CSS. We can now do a:hover, what about a:newwindow. For now we can manually do stuff with class="", but it would be nice to push out a standard so people start following it. We could do the same with internal vs. external links (people often have a little icon for external links)

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