I'm siding with zengargoyle on this one. There are times when I want the link I'm clicking on to open in the same window. Besides, you say 8 or less keystrokes: try beating the one keystroke/one click method: ctrl+click (in mozilla anyhow, some browsers use shift+click, etc). I like having my browser load pages the way I want them to, over some website-designer thinking they know what I want :)

As a side-note (unrelated yet related at the same time), I hate despise sites that open new windows via javascript. Why? Two reasons: 1. Because you have to have javascript enabled in order to view the page it's trying to open. 2. Because I tend to ctrl+click any link I want to open in a new window, only to find that it's a javascript link and will fail (with a popup javascript error to boot) to open the new link.

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In reply to Re: Making off site links a little better by Coruscate
in thread Making off site links a little better by Petras

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