links in new windows: threat or menace?

[egypturnash]

From a brief discussion on the practice of making links in your LJ open in new windows...

[Poll #810323]

Feel free to expand on your opinion in the comments!

Comments

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Part of the original concept for HTML in the first place was that it would merely define the nature of the content, and leave it to whatever was interpreting the page (the browser) to determine just what to do with that. Unless there's a really solid reason to make a link open up in a new window/tab/screen/bubble — and if ther is that reason, it should damned well merit a warning that the link will open that way! — then it's best left to the user's discretion how to treat it.