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Posted by David E. Ross on September 1, 2007, 1:29 pm
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On 8/31/2007 10:10 AM, Xah Lee wrote:
> why is that, of websites in china, every link opens a new window?
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> this seems be the norm in every major sites. e.g.
> http://cn.yahoo.com/
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> Xah
> xah@xahlee.org
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
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Mozilla-type browsers (e.g., Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino) have options to
prevent this. You can force these to open instead in the same window or
in a new tab on that window.
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Posted by Walter Traprock on September 1, 2007, 2:24 pm
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> > this seems be the norm in every major sites. e.g.
> > http://cn.yahoo.com/
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> Mozilla-type browsers (e.g., Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino) have options to
> prevent this. You can force these to open instead in the same window or
> in a new tab on that window.
Perhaps, but firefox seems a little dodgy with the tabbing; sometimes
it places you in the new tab, sometimes it doesn't, and vice versa.
Safari is actually more reliable placing you in new tabs or not as
desired. You have to turn on tabs, of course, and deal with the
danger of frequent Safari crashes.
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Posted by dan on September 1, 2007, 2:34 pm
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> Mozilla-type browsers (e.g., Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino) have options to
> prevent this. You can force these to open instead in the same window or
> in a new tab on that window.
Although this can sometimes cause sites (especially "web application"-
type sites, and any sites that don't Keep It Simple Stupid, and use
bizarrely convoluted scripting logic instead of straightforward HTML)
to act weird, and do things like replace the entire site page with a
full-screen thing that was intended as a dialog box, confirmation
message, or popup ad.
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Dan
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Posted by Lars Eighner on September 3, 2007, 4:38 am
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In our last episode,
the lovely and talented Xah Lee
broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
> why is that, of websites in china, every link opens a new window?
I suspect this has something to do with the educational system in China.
I see many question about English from students in China that include
examples, evidently from texts or handouts, which are stilted or impossible
in every dialect of English I know of. Evidently, when a teacher in China
decides this is the way to do things, it is simply impossible to question
that or to introduce any alternatives.
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Posted by xhoster on September 4, 2007, 11:37 am
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> In our last episode,
> the lovely and talented Xah Lee
> broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
>
> > why is that, of websites in china, every link opens a new window?
>
> I suspect this has something to do with the educational system in China.
> I see many question about English from students in China that include
> examples, evidently from texts or handouts, which are stilted or
> impossible in every dialect of English I know of. Evidently, when a
> teacher in China decides this is the way to do things, it is simply
> impossible to question that or to introduce any alternatives.
Some of my colleagues have the annoying habit of making all their links
on our intranet open in a new window for no apparent reason. I had never
before considered trying to explain this by their nationality (at time of
education) but you just might be on to something here.
Xho
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