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RE: Best practice for warning users of opening window

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Aug 12, 2005 11:12AM

> Jukka K. Korpela

> At times we need to make compromises, so let us assume that
> we have been
> forced to use popups.
>
> Then the obvious solution is to include a warning (before the
> link, of
> course, since the document might be "consumed" in a linear fashion).

Or even, I'd say, as part of a link, as a user may have just been tabbing
from link to link, rather than reading the page sequentially and in full...

Patrick
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