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Re: tabs vs windows

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From: Mallory van Achterberg
Date: Aug 20, 2014 4:03AM

Wikipedia has used these icons for a while now as well.

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 03:36:39PM +0000, Angela French wrote:
> Thanks Paul, while I'm familiar with the various ones for external links, I guess I've never really noticed, or thought about the new window icons. I just click 'em open!
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> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Paul J. Adam
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> There's tons to choose from! They mostly look similar, generally many have either an arrow pointing out of a box or a box overlaid on a box underneath to represent 2 windows.
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> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1899772/new-window-icon-for-web-accessibility>;
> <http://webaim.org/techniques/hypertext/hypertext_links#new_windowz>;
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> Paul J. Adam
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