Why don't people understand that opening windows for me is a bad idea? It's one of the original usability sins.
Erik:
I spawn new windows, and I like it. So stop your whining.
Charles:
I'm on Mike's side.
- Spawning new windows is annoying. I use tabbed browsing. If you're spawning new windows, you're breaking out of my carefully organised tabs.
- Spawning new windows is bad accessability
- Spawning new windows is presumptive. It's saying that your style of browsing is better suited to my needs than my own.
- Spawning new windows is arrogant. It's saying “I know my site is more important than the site I'm linking to, so I'm making sure you have to come back!” Rubbish. That's my decision, not yours.
I generally browse by opening up three quarters of links in new tabs, but even then that's my decision. I certainly wouldn't presume to force it on anyone else.
