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I think that only URL’s in your blogroll can be changed to open up links in a new window. I guess you can do what I do, “right click” on the link and open in a new window that way.
Trent
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Bad thing or not, why enforce that? In blog posts too you can open the link in a new page. That is a default option when using the window to put the link(instead of html coding).
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I noticed this myself yesterday. I don’t like it being stripped. It may be bad netiquette but I prefer to have the link open in a new page.
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I’m a bit lost here. Are we saying that it gets stripped out of posts or comments or what? I just tried in within a post and it worked fine for me.
edit: I agree with it being bad form but seems like to be that staff is more interested in keeping to the web X/HTML standards and it’s allowed still in there. (Well, it was last time I checked.)
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I think this might be one of those situations where blindly following validation does not equal best practice. New windows are a real nuisance from the useability, accessibilty standpoint. In proper browsers there is no need for them anyway. :)
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Yes, but remember that not all of us can have proper browsers. If you want to take on the state of North Carolina and their love for IE…
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