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On Fri, 4 May 2007 07:50:58 +0100 Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for that help. Further to my last email...... I am using this > idea in the home page for my web site. There are just five links to my > other URLs at the moment (blog, gallery etc) so I tried this - > the first link has target="new1", the second link has target="New2" > and so on. When I tried this out using Firefox, Opera and Galeon it > worked as I wanted. I have yet to test it with IE. Have you considered that visitors to your site might not want to have 5 tabs just from your one site? This is why tabs are not directly under the control of the website - they are a *user* feature and should not be abused in this way. It's fine to use target="" for pages that need to be in a separate window - glossaries, definitions, terms and conditions, other content that needs to be viewed at the same time as another page in order to make that page more useful *to the visitor*. e.g. I often have a WikiFormatting help page open when editing various wikis because, unfortunately, they all differ. I would have a tab with a detailed view of a build log when preparing a bug report arising from that failed build. I would want the terms and conditions of some new service available in a new tab rather than replacing the current web form that I've spent the last 10 minutes completing. Just because you can does NOT mean you should. This 5 tab approach might look cool to you now will look tacky and amatuerish to many. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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