Home of Heath Allyn
Actor/Musician Extraordinaire!

There has long been heated debates as to whether a website should specify whether or not links open in new windows or not. One side says they do not like having that choice forced upon them, while there’s also many web newbies who don’t know about the various methods to get a link to open in a new window and therefore might get lost and confused if they click a link and are suddenly taken away from the site they were looking at to some other site.

That of course is a gross oversimplification of the matter, but suffice to say, I have removed all “target” attributes from all my links. This means that none of my links will open in new windows unless you take some action to make it so. The links are free from oppression! Enjoy the brave new world of choice!

I personally use Mozilla Firefox and ctrl-click or click the middle mouse button if I want a link to open in a new window. Even better is that the Tabbed Browser Extensions plugin for Firefox has many settings allowing you to control the opening of new windows. I love the setting that automatically opens links that refer to external sites (sites other than the one I’m browsing) in a new window, or a new background window.