- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:32:19 +1000
Smylers wrote: > Lachlan Hunt writes: >> You're assuming there is actually a valid use case for the popup in >> the first place. > > But as you've already pointed out, browsers can offer users who never > want to have links automatically open anywhere than the current window, > so webpages' hints are completely ignored anyway. > ... > So target (except for frames within a page) is only relevant for users > who like some things to open in new windows, and trust webpages to offer > hints on which links are appropriate for this. As such, the views of > people who never want new windows don't need to be taken into account > here -- because they won't be affected whatever happens! You're ignoring the users who don't like popups, but don't know how to prevent them using those *hidden prefs* I mentioned. J. King wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:55:30 -0400, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: >> e.g. in Firefox, setting the pref browser.link.open_newwindow to 1 causes any links with target="" that would normally open a new window, to open in the current tab. There are a few other prefs to control window.open() as well. > > open_newwindow=1 -suppressing- new windows? Holy counterintuitive, Batman! > Or is that just a typo on your part? It's not a boolean value, so 1 != true. http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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