Re: javascript and URLs

I think that there is consensus that opening a new window is not, ever, a
good thing. It confuses navigation. (Imagine a non sited person who is moved
without her knowledge to a pop up window and then tries the back button -
disorienting the user.)
Lisa
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Neff <robneff@home.com>
To: wai-gl <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Date: Saturday, March 03, 2001 9:45 PM
Subject: javascript and URLs


>wendy, have we considered javascript opening URLs in new new windows (that
>are not pop-ups) as a techniques or other?  was just thinking about the
>number of web sites includeing news sites that do this.  you click on the
>URL link and it opens another browser window.  what if javascript is turned
>off? or do we need no script here?
>
>comments?
>
>

Received on Sunday, 4 March 2001 01:38:58 UTC