sniperscope Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi I want to you guys make commercial banners open "_blank". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 No, I absolutely hate when websites do it. What if I wanted to open it in the same window/tab? That's impossible when someone thought they should decide how I want to browse. Target=_blank is an accessibility issue, and W3C recommends against it in the strict DTDs, if I remember correctly. You'd have to ask Google anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniperscope Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 but when we click any of that banner then we skip that page and lost the phpfreaks page. I would like to keep visiting phpfreaks and reading some posts when i click an banner. This is a suggestion anyway, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Right, I don't know what browser you use, but in Firefox you can Ctrl+Click (or middle click) on link to open in a new tab, or you can Shift+Click to open in a new Window. You can also right click on the link and choose those yourself. You have the power to control where you want it opened, if we do target=_blank then we remove that power from you, which is incredibly annoying. As I said, target=_blank is a usability problem. It makes it impossible to open in the same window/tab even if you want to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 It makes it impossible to open in the same window/tab even if you want to. Umm... since when? You can right click on any link and open it in a new tab or window even when the target is set to _blank. I don't know a browser that stops you from doing that. I actually prefer to have links open in a new tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 It makes it impossible to open in the same window/tab even if you want to. Umm... since when? You can right click on any link and open it in a new tab or window even when the target is set to _blank. I don't know a browser that stops you from doing that. I actually prefer to have links open in a new tab. He means opening it in the same window.... Try openning the link in your signature in the current window/tab. Because SMF uses target="_blank" it will always open in a new window/tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 I need more sleep... either way though... I don't generally mind that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Not only is target not recommended, according to this W3C page, it is outright deleted from HTML 4.01 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict... In HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0 Transitional, the target attribute can be used to open a new window, instead of automatic pop-ups. (The target attribute is deleted from HTML 4.01 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict.) While this site uses XHTML 1.0 Transitional, I don't endorse the target method. As mentioned, control is removed. Never a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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