On 8/8/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
They aren't. You'd have to hack the software. This is a deliberate design decision, I believe: the user's browser gives them ways to decide where to open a link, and overriding them should be unnecessary. Let the user decide whether they want a new window or not.
Just because I'm controversial I'll disagree. Gmail, for example, always opens *every* external link in a new window. It works extremely well - you never have to worry about "losing your gmail window". It wouldn't be a bad thing if MediaWiki did similar - you're unlikely to really want to navigate away from Wikipedia, for instance, when you follow a link - most likely you'll read it then want to come back.
The user's browser can override any behaviour, but that's not to say that providing good default behaviour isn't necessary.
Steve