Re: howto : link opens a new window?

"Chris Dudley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> 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.

I often find the complete opposite is a problem: a link opens in the same
page using JavaScript, and I want to open it in a new window, but I can't as
the JavaScript gets confused and errors. It's often used for downloads, and
probably contains some sort of browser sense to trigger the browser into
downloading something - I don't really understand it, but it can be right
old pain.

-- JJ