One of the minor annoyances (very minor, nothing to get worked up over) is the fact when there is a link in either PM chat or in a posting clicking on it has you leave the page you are on and replace that page with the referenced link.

How much trouble would it be to change the behavior of links inside of square bracket to open a new window using 

<a href=".." target="_blank">

[download]
type of linkages? Is there a downside to that?

Just a random thought that occurred to me in my sleep deprived state.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg

In reply to Changing PM Link behavior by blue_cowdawg

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