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Re: Opening new windows

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Feb 7, 2005 2:58PM

> The reason I ask is I just finished a makeover for my own site
> [feedback welcomed] and an Internet marketing guru suggested that I
> have links open in new windows so that I don't lose my visitors.

Kind of a silly argument. People know how to use BACK buttons.

In the end, I use the argument that it's the customers browser...not mine.
I'll let them decide if they want to open a new window or not.

I have found...especially those folks that tend to use every program on
their computer fully maximized...that having new windows pop-up using the
TARGET attribute causes confusion as it opens a new window fully maximized,
so it looks just like the one they were just on, except now their back
button is 'broken'.

Tell your Guru that 'not annoying customers' is typically the best way to
keep them as customers.

-Darrel