I agree generally, that it can be a nuisance when webplaces open pages in new windows. But then everything can be abused.
If you want to build a community, it is valuable to be able to differentiate between what is going on, on the inside of the site, inside the community and what is external from the site. Targeting external links to new windows helps create that feeling, overriding user settings.
I want my portal to be friendly also to users, who may not be so familiar with the internet, and the more so with the wiki concept. Yet I still want to use interwikilinks and such for key concepts that are best explained elsewhere. I therefore want my users to familiarize themselves with my site as a safe, local place, and keep them there, being sent into the abyss of wikimania in wikipedia, without losing track of crewscut.com.
Is there anyone who has made a hack or extension for the purpose of targeting interwikilinks and external links to new windows?
Morten :-)
Sam Rowe wrote:
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:07:03PM +0200, NSK wrote: # On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:27, =James Birkholz= wrote: # > Is there a syntax for external links, that will cause them to open in a new # > browser window? # # do not do that, it is bad design.
Amen to that! Let your users decide if they want new windows. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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