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Re: Should external links really open in the same window?

by Chauncey Wilson :: Rate this Message:

If you want to do comparisons, then you might want to have an item
created in a new window. Tabs are great, but sometimes you want to
compare items using multiple windows. There might also be some legal
reasons for completely separating one source from another source.

Chauncey

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Jens Meiert <jens@...> wrote:

>> Should the rule that links should always open in the same window be
>> revisited?
>
> Going for the very short answer: No, as this choice should be left to
> the user. Talking studies I do not know any that does not verify what
> Nielsen suggested in another article, namely only to open new windows
> for non-web documents [1] (albeit there might be other, rare
> exceptions […]).
>
>
> [1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html
>
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