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    There are two hyperlink design crimes that warrant a death penalty for the designer.

    1. Links that open in a new window.
    If I want to open it in a new window, I will do so myself.
    2. Links you cannot open in a new window, because they're a javascript pop-up.
    I can understand the need for that with dependent windows like the smilies window on the right, but on the Civ5 site it's the community updates that work like that. I want to open ALL of them before reading one, damn it.
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    Last edited by ZEE; December 22, 2010, 20:33.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by AAHZ View Post
      in Soviet Russia hyperlinks design YOU

      Ha ha ha, oh wow! AAHZ, your replies are getting funnier every day.
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      • #4
        onodera, there are legitimate reasons to have the default behavior be a new window

        e.g. on an online retail site, the link to see a bigger picture of the item I'm looking at should be a new window

        Any link which leads to a URL from which I'm going to want to hit the back button in almost all circumstances should be a new window...
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        • #5
          onodera, there are legitimate reasons to have the default behavior be a new window

          e.g. on an online retail site, the link to see a bigger picture of the item I'm looking at should be a new window

          Any link which leads to a URL from which I'm going to want to hit the back button in almost all circumstances should be a new window...
          12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
          Stadtluft Macht Frei
          Killing it is the new killing it
          Ultima Ratio Regum

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          • #6
            100% of your RDA of Repetition.
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            • #7
              KH: that's why we have the ctrl key.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
                100% of your RDA of Repetition.
                This from the guy who posted two of the same birthday threads. Also, your birthday threads are horrible. If we must have them, let someone who is better at them do it.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Kuciwalker View Post
                  KH: that's why we have the ctrl key.
                  The reason it's not done that way is because most people won't use the ctrl key when they are 'supposed' to, and if they did have to, they would complain about the designer of the website deserving the death penalty or somesuch.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
                    onodera, there are legitimate reasons to have the default behavior be a new window

                    e.g. on an online retail site, the link to see a bigger picture of the item I'm looking at should be a new window

                    Any link which leads to a URL from which I'm going to want to hit the back button in almost all circumstances should be a new window...
                    It should be done via AJAX popups, like the Lightbox image zoom so many sites use. never a new window. Not in 2010.

                    BTW, middle clicking usually works also (not just CTRL) to open links in a new tab.
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                    • #11
                      I don't want to have to think to click ctrl or middle key. The design should facilitate the natural progression of clicks
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                      Killing it is the new killing it
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Asher View Post
                        It should be done via AJAX popups, like the Lightbox image zoom so many sites use. never a new window. Not in 2010.

                        BTW, middle clicking usually works also (not just CTRL) to open links in a new tab.
                        I ****ing hate the websites that open the pictures in the stupid little in-page windows. Partly it's just because the standard form does the stupid "I'm going to slowly expand vertically and then horizontally before you get to see the damn thing" and partly because half the time it means you can't ctrl-click everything you're interested and have them load in parallel.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Kuciwalker View Post
                          I ****ing hate the websites that open the pictures in the stupid little in-page windows. Partly it's just because the standard form does the stupid "I'm going to slowly expand vertically and then horizontally before you get to see the damn thing" and partly because half the time it means you can't ctrl-click everything you're interested and have them load in parallel.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Kuciwalker View Post
                            I ****ing hate the websites that open the pictures in the stupid little in-page windows. Partly it's just because the standard form does the stupid "I'm going to slowly expand vertically and then horizontally before you get to see the damn thing" and partly because half the time it means you can't ctrl-click everything you're interested and have them load in parallel.
                            In a college introductory computer class, I made my website with those (lightbox popups?) and thoroughly impressed the students in the class
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                            • #15
                              I'm not surprised, they were Temple University students...

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