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Re: Reason For Links Opening In New Window

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From: John S. Britsios
Date: Jan 8, 2007 1:20AM

Hi all,

I wrote a long time an article about this issue, which I hope it is not
outdated.
Maybe you would like to have a look: http://www.webnauts.net/new-window.html

Best,

John


Phil Teare wrote:
> Hi all
>
> There are many "Web2.0" type reasons for such techniques. Opening a
> new window can often give you Javascript fucntionality that woud
> otherwise be out of reach.
>
> Such as Jacuba's spellchecking.
>
> I give Jacuba as an example, as it offers AT to many for free, so
> bashing it for useing javascript in this way is not an immediate
> conclusion to be reached.
>
> For example you can use a spawned window to keep some javascript
> alive, when a user goes to another page, even if it is not loaded by
> the next page. It can be inserted by the spawned page, if created by
> one on the same domain.
>
> This affords greater freedom scope and functionality to bookmarklets
> developers, and JS service providers. Some of whom are on the side of
> accessibility...
>
> Thoughts/reactions to this?
>
> Phil Teare
> Technical Director
> Textic ltd
> www.talklets.com
>