Just like Drupals "competitors" like Joomla and Wordpress. Joomla offers to choose between

"same window" (plain link)
"New window with navigation" (target = blank)
"New window without navigation" (javascript window.open)

In Joomla projects (simple sites) I personaly find this usefull.

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Paul Natsuo Kishimoto’s picture

Paul Natsuo Kishimoto commented
Version: 4.7.4 » 4.7.x-dev

Feature requests should be against the development version - updating to 4.7.x-dev.

Zen’s picture

Zen commented
Version: 4.7.x-dev » 6.x-dev
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

a) This will break XHTML strict compliance,
b) This annoys users who do not want links to open in new windows. How about letting them control their own browsing experience?
c) This is what the middle click / right click, open in new window is for.
d) This can be accomplished with a contrib module.
e) This is bad design.

Marking as won't fix.
-K

hass’s picture

hass commented

i know it breaks XHTML 1.0 Strict and above... but the users are mostly not such intelligent... think about the stupid users... not the power users :-). many websites are developed in 1.0 strict and then turned back to "1.0 Transitional" only for the target attribute...

keesje’s picture

keesje commented

I truly love correct coded sites, i more love a correct user experience. One ocassion it becomes handy to open links in a new window is when direct linking to PDF's, most browsers open PDF files in the main window by default. Now speaking of anoying...

I understand issues like this are not popular by code-minded developers. It is for user-minded designers!

Thanks for your reply's

Zen’s picture

Zen commented

If you are really desperate, you should be able to accomplish this (in a quite straightforward manner) via a module that uses JS to insert the target attribute to links with an appropriate class.

My 10p,
-K

hass’s picture

hass commented
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

@Zen, this won't help if JS is deactivated, what many users today do :-(. So JS is no real option... target works without JS.

catch’s picture

catch
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Primary language English
commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

http://drupal.org/project/extlink

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)
ckleiman’s picture

ckleiman commented

I'm a former Mambo user and was also looking for a way to open a link in a new window like you can in Mambo. However, after reading through this thread I think I'll try what you suggest and not open a new window. I agree it takes from the browsing experience. Many thanks for sharing your expertise. I just saved myself a lot of work and the result better.