What's the best way to link to a post from another post

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  korporalkernel · Member · Dec 4, 2013 at 3:55 pm

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  I have a draft post in my Blog:

  Lexical Analysis With F# – Part 2

  In the very first sentence of that post is a link to this earlier post:

  Lexical Analysis With F# – Part 1

  But when I click the link the page goes white and there’s a delay etc before the new page appears, jumping from one post to another in the same blog should surely be snappy and seamless?

  Is there a preferred way to do this?

  Should I not be inserting the full URL but a relative one?

  Thanks

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Dec 4, 2013 at 4:20 pm

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  Hey there –

  The transition seamed pretty seamless to me. That is how I would have linked both posts together.

  How long is it taking to get from post to post? It was under half a second for me (unless that is not seamless enough). Granted, I also got the very brief white screen you were referring to, but I get that no matter what site I am moving from.

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Dec 4, 2013 at 4:23 pm

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  It would be slightly more seamless if you didn’t have the new post open in a new tab, but the difference would be minute.

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  korporalkernel · Member · Dec 4, 2013 at 7:32 pm

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  Thanks for looking – but I wonder why its opening in a new tab…I have no idea what it does that…

  Let me look at the HTML – the post was cratered by Live Writer…

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  korporalkernel · Member · Dec 4, 2013 at 7:34 pm

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  OK Fixed – there was a “target” term in the URL – I just removed that and its fine.

  Thx