a question about website design/navigation preferences...

[ratcreature]

I know that links opening in a new window are reviled in most circumstances, and generally I agree with that, however personally when navigating fanart sites and the thumbnails just open an image, not a real page, I like if those open in a new window, so that's what I do on my site. However, it occurs to me that I may be in a minority with that preference, so I'm wondering whether I should change it to the image opening in the same window. Thus a poll:

[Poll #653473]

Comments

[ratcreature]

That's a good point. Personally I have my middle-click configured to open links in a new tab but retain focus on the old one, which is practical for clicking on story links and such on my f-list to read them later, while remaining in my f-list tab. And actually if I middle-click that behavior overrides the target_blank thing, i.e. if I click with the middle button it will always open in a new tab, target_blank only works on a left click. But I don't have yet another mouse button click to open a new window and focus on that window, I have to do shift+left click for that. But you're right of course that specifying target_blank may hinder customizations, I hadn't really thought of that.