Re: Should external links really open in the samewindow?

<self-referential design point>

I hate it when links open in the same window, unless they are navigational within a site. Usually I'm opening a few references (links from blog, for example) and I want to keep the main context to read more/find other links.

</self-referential design point>

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Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should external links really open in the samewindow?

> 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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