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Re: Question about links opening in new tabs/windows

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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Dec 3, 2013 11:58AM

The reason I open a new tab for an offsite link is pretty simple. Consider this: You're on a site with a high level of complexity, you click a link to a similar site, but not the original. Now you're on someone else's site and if your following an article you could even click out to another site. Now ... where is that original page I was on?? Back buttons don't work on every site and there may have been some redirects in there that you're not aware of, so now you need to open the history page to see if you can find that original page.

Easier to open a separate tab and maintain the original site ... and yes it's 2013, but not everyone knows how to use a browser beyond clicking a link or using a back button.

JMO :-)


Greg