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Re: Open in new window

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Apr 13, 2010 8:39AM

[Mike's Comments] For non-html content, particularly PDF opening outside of the browser window is important to accessibility, particularly with screen readers. The same often holds true for video content since the embedded players are often inaccessible while most of the stand alone players work well. With PDF, the users can control this behavior with the Adobe reader forcing the content to open in the stand alone player.

As Mike said, users can control whether the PDF document opens in the same window or in the standalone reader - so there is no need to use target="_blank" or some other means to open a new window for the PDF content.
AWK