On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 04:07:11PM +0200, HeinzJ wrote:

What has to be done to have external links opened in a new window?

This can actually be done with user/administrator javascript.

There is -- floating around, and I don't have a good cite -- some javascript that hangs off the onChange of a checkbox on your page (usually labelled with a "multiple pages" icon) which walks the DOM looking for A HREF links and rewriting their TARGET; it's a very clever approach, and one I recommend over merely *forcing* the issue, as I'm one of the people whom it pisses off (see an earlier thread in our archives for all the arguments).

If you do this, you probably want to default it to off, for all those same reasons.

If you meant, instead, "how do I make certain, specific, external links open in a new window" then I think the answer is "you can't do that from wikitext."

Cheers, -- jra