Your opinion. Target new windows or not?
 

I'm debating on what I should do with my posts. Both ways have pros and cons.

Targeting new windows:

Pros:
1. No waiting for the page to reload after pushing back. It is cached but still takes a couple of seconds to load. Which is annoying.

2. Your site is always open in a window.

3. If a visitor just came from a site that targets new windows, they may be in the habbit of it and close your site on accident. This won't happen if you target also.

Cons:

1. If the surfer has other windows open, the gallery may load into that window instead of a brand new one. Which sucks! (Is there a way to stop this?)




Which do you think is best and why? Can you think of other pros and cons? I'm sure a lot of you have debated this yourselves.

The are good uses for that like exit consoles, tgps, and freesites, but I wouldn't use one on a tgp gallery page itself

and "target="_blank" shouldn't pop into another currently open window, it should pop a whole new window all together.

That's my :2 cents: baby :thumbsup

I agree it depends:

On a TGP sure (The gallery listing sfor example)

On a gallery never!

On a freesite not likely (Most linklists don't allow it)

Inside an AVS site sure

Hope that helps :)

CC

I use <base target="main"> between my head tags to target all of them.

I wonder if <base target="_blank"> would work? I will try.


But, I wonder if it's the best thing to do. Because the biggest sites don't do it.

thehun, worldsex, etc. There must be a reason that they don't do it.