Sites opening (remote links) in new windows
are bad.
The above statement might make me sound like an
old
fart, but that would only make me proud. My reasoning for this statement
is rather simple; the unique selling point of the world wide web is that you
can transparantly navigate through literally millions of sites all over the
world from behind your PC. Note the word 'transparantly' in the previous
sentence, as that is the primary source of concern. Opening new windows
when someone clicks on a link pointing to another site drops that
transparancy - you cannot use the 'back' button (or any keyboard-equivalent)
to go back to the previous page you were looking at - you'll have to use
your mouse and explicitly close the window, or type in the relevant
keyboard-equivalent. This makes 'random browsing' not cool. The other point
is that sites opening links in new windows are dictating policy - or, worse,
they're violating my policy. If I had wanted to open up the link, I'd have
clicked using my middle mouse button.
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