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[erikred]

So, after a little exchange with the ever-provocative mkb_cbr, I've decided to experiment by purposefully not making links in my journal open new windows. What do you think?

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[erikred.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, quite a lot of the web was populated with nasty little javascript url obfuscators that would automagically refer you from one page to another so that when you hit the back button, thinking you were going back to the page that had originally referred to, you actually ended up back at the javascript referral page, which then reloaded the page you were just on.

erikred -> javascript-laden page -> actual page

If you didn't know how to use the list function on your back button, you were in danger of never getting back. Sure, many people would not have this problem. Unfortunately, lots of people do.

In doing research to reply to this thread, I deliberately looked for pages that would do the auto-referral thing; either I'm too tired or the web has cleaned up its act, because I didn't find anything. So my original reason for using new windows now seems to be mooted. Fair enough.