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Re: Opening PDF, Word Documents or other sites like Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive in a new window ...

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 14, 2023 5:02PM

And purely from a "giving my opinion" point of view: as long as it
doesn't break the back button, I'd say a link to a PDF, Dropbox, etc can
just be a straight link in the same window. The user can bail back out
to the site using back. If you do provide a bit more context as part of
the link (like adding a PDF icon with appropriate alt etc), users can
then still choose themselves if they want to open in a new window or tab
(by middle/wheel clicking, using context menu, etc) if they so wish.

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