Re: howto : link opens a new window?

Jason Judge wrote:

> "Tomislav Grabic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]
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>>Jason Judge wrote:
>>
>>>"Tomas Nekvasil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>news:[email protected]
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>>>>http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1041
>>>
>>>Very good. In essence, the article describes this:
>>>
>>>JavaScript to be loaded with every page:
>>
>>isn´t it easier to just add this?
>>onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;"
> 
> 
> It may be easier, but won't work at all on some browsers. At lease the
> previous technique has a fall-back: if the JavaScript does not work then the
> link still works as a normal link, and the user can still choose to open it
> manually in a new window.
> 
imho a fallback is essential.
What with all the spate of viruses and malicious crud out there home 
users are getting a little more clued in, not necessarily about details 
but are using home firewalls and suchlike which often secure some 
aspects of web access. I know the enterprise version of ZoneLabs I have 
disbales all activeX and some javascript.
It wont be long before one of them disables all javascript entirely.

I would imagine its not that unreasonable for users to expect sites to 
still have basic functionality and for links to still work.

miko