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    <title>I am always surprised at</title>
    <summary>I am always surprised at what things get huge responses... People have been emailing me like crazy about the &quot;links in new windows&quot; thing. Let...</summary>
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      <name>Anil</name>
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      <![CDATA[<p>I am always surprised at what things get huge responses... People have been emailing me like crazy about the "links in new windows" thing. Let me clarify: I'm not saying people <em>shouldn't</em> be able to open links in new windows. Why, that'd be crazy! I'm saying that it's not a default behavior, and it shouldn't be <em>forced</em> upon users. If they're advanced and want to do something else, let 'em. But don't force it on the rest of us who want to control our browsing behavior.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> For what's it worth, here's how I surf. I tend to right-click on any link on a page full of interesting links, and open the target in a new window. Then, on the last interesting link, I just click on it, so that window will be reused. I go through each of the new windows, reading and closing as I go, until I'm back to my original window, which has loaded the new page while I was reading. On sites where I know a new window will be spawned, I just drag the link to my URL bar to make the browser ignore the new window target for the link.</p><!-- p> redacted because matt whines about my ambiguity. Discussion with <a href="http://haughey.com">Matt</a> yielded a theory that many of the people who target new windows create their sites on Macs, where users are used to a very different system of handling multiple independent windows, as opposed to Windows systems where the taskbar is king. Either way, I think the user should choose.</p --><p><!-- Comments(9712481) --></p>]]>
      
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