- From: David Walbert <dwalbert@learnnc.org>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:58:27 -0400
On Apr 28, 2007, at 7:37 AM, Smylers wrote: > Spartanicus writes: > >> As a user I detest new windows opening without having chosen to do >> that myself. Me too, but... > Surely users always have the final say anyway? Yes, but... Most of them don't know it. I hope this is changing, but part of my job the past 10 years has been leading workshops demonstrating aspects and uses of the web to people in non-IT professions, and very few of them know this stuff. The people on this list take it for granted that they can right-click and open in a new tab or window, but I don't believe that feature is used often. The people in my workshops just put up with whatever the website does. (It's painful and frustrating to me, yes.) I don't have any data to offer -- just anecdotes -- and I would assume that more younger people use those features of browsers, but still we can't assume that "users," broadly, are even aware they exist. I don't know which side of the debate that puts me on. Just offering the observation. _____ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill dwalbert at learnnc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070428/e8c9fe86/attachment.htm>
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