- From: Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:40:35 +0100
- To: "WAI list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Lois Wakeman > *There may be a good reason in your case of course, but I > don't know what it > is. If it's anything like the situations in which I've been asked to do this sort of thing, I'll hazard a guess and say that the reason lies with the default settings in Acrobat and MS Office to open documents straight in the browser. People are used to closing the PDF/Doc/etc once they've read it, not realising that the back button would take them back to the site - and thus they lose their place. Of course, part of me would argue that it's the user's responsibility to set up their system so that it doesn't do that sort of thing if it's confusing to them...but on the other hand, I can see the point of those trying to counter the potential problem by forcing a new window to open. Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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