Light-hearted rant for web developers

[Mateo]

Web developers: Do not tell your links to open in a new window. Ever. I'll decide where the links that I click are loaded, thanks. I don't do new windows. It's 2008, not 1998.

ok, just had to get that off my chest, i feel better now.

[p_quarles]

. . . and might I just add: Don't use Javascript to disable my context menu, toolbars, navigation bar, or status bar.

[Linuxratty]

And those building web pages...Don't provide a link that goes to a page that says :"Under Construction."

[macogw]

Web developers: Do not tell your links to open in a new window. Ever. I'll decide where the links that I click are loaded, thanks. I don't do new windows. It's 2008, not 1998.

ok, just had to get that off my chest, i feel better now.

Why don't you just use the Firefox setting that opens "new window" links in a new tab?

[fedex1993]

Some people always dont use firefox like i do. I use links to browse the next mostly because its fast for browsing and i like it.

[macogw]

Some people always dont use firefox like i do. I use links to browse the next mostly because its fast for browsing and i like it.

Does links even pay any attention to "new window" links? It doesn't actually spawn a new terminal for it, does it??? Lynx doesn't.

[Dr Small]

Web developers: Do not tell your links to open in a new window. Ever. I'll decide where the links that I click are loaded, thanks. I don't do new windows. It's 2008, not 1998.

ok, just had to get that off my chest, i feel better now.

I use target="_blank" so it opens in a new tab in firefox

[macogw]

I use target="_blank" so it opens in a new tab in firefox

That's deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict.

[Dr Small]

That's deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Depreciated my foot. It's still on the w3schools.com/tags page.... I never learned XHTML, only HTML...

[macogw]

Depreciated my foot. It's still on the w3schools.com/tags page.... I never learned XHTML, only HTML...

Well it is. It's because target="" defines behaviour, not content, so it's not appropriate for XHTML. The current way around is rel="external" since external site links are what you'd usually open anyway. Then have JS set the targets for all of the links that go somewhere outside the current domain open in new windows/tabs.