Comments on: Open Links in New Window, WP Tutorial

By: Steve Terjeson

Steve Terjeson — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:54:34 +0000

I found this actually rather good for my blog as I want to retain the user to read the news and topics I post while still being able to reference outside material. I personally prefer the functionality over the xhtml compliance and outside preferences. Feel free to visit my Ironvine Search Marketing

By: Ajay - On the Road called Life! » Wordpress Hack: Opening Links in New Windows

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:58:07 +0000

[...] Posted by Ajay under Blogging Having read the tutorial by 21st Century Paladin on Opening Links in New Windows, I dug up an old post of mine in which I had editted the qui [...]

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 00:26:26 +0000

Thanks for the hack… When I’m the one that browses I use FireFox and tabed navigation, but unfortunatelly most users I know have no idea about computers, navigation and other subjects, so they limit their experience to what is given in the box when they buy the computer (i.e. Windows and IE) and sometimes the experience is frustrating for them.

For me the hack using .js was not valid, I try not to use .js nor cookies or plugins… just plain HTML in the output :)

By: Ajay DSouza

Ajay DSouza — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 07:30:18 +0000

BTW, I have written a similar hack which requires the editting of only quicktags.js file and provides better flexibility in adding the target attribute. Please check it out here.

By: David Nagle

David Nagle — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:30:44 +0000

I just wanted to state my agreement with “wow just wow”. No offense to you personally, but when I saw this plugin announced, it made me cringe. :)

A normal link can always be opened in a new window, but a target=”_blank” link cannot (normally) be opened in the same window.

Thankfully, Firefox let’s me disable the annoying target=”_blank” behavior.

Oh well, to each his or her own, I suppose. :)

By: Cr0wley

Cr0wley — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:33:16 +0000

The target=”_blank” attribute is certainly not compliant with the xhtml 1.0 strict standard – if you’re concerned about it you should mark the page as transitional xhtml once you’ve introduced these elements

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:34:24 +0000

Or it should from my understanding anyways (sorry for the double comment).

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:33:26 +0000

But it breaks the valid XHTML.

By: Ajay DSouza

Ajay DSouza — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:19:20 +0000

Will go with Paladin on this one. Then again it is a matter of preference.
I prefer opening external links in new pages.

By: Paladin

Paladin — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:11:38 +0000

Good point. I just like it that way and am forcing my preferences on everyone else. ;^)

I always think it’s frustrating to click on a link that doesn’t open in a new window and have to click back to read the rest of the story. But you have a good point.

By: wow just wow

wow just wow — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:25:06 +0000

The thing that you missed is that having links open in a new window is actually somewhat annoying. If the user wanted a new window he would specifically ask
for one. With tabbed browsing it’s almost pointless, because the user would rather have a new tab anyway.