Links opening in a new window?

[Tom Humiston]

Here's an excellent article on the topic:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html

In the first two sections of the article, Jakob Nielsen covers issues  
related to opening new windows. His website is a gold mine of  
information for website designers.


On May 18, 2009, at 9:16 PM, Hong MinHee wrote:


> Explicit frame target of anchors is invalid in XHTML 1.0 Strict.  

> (There are many issues on web accessibility about it.)  Markdown  

> specifications don’t mention about it, but you can make it with  

> just raw HTML directly.

>

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Tony Leggett  

> <tleggett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>

>> Hi all,

>>

>> This is a Noob question but I couldn't find anything on the syntax  

>> page about making a link that opens in a hew window (and two years  

>> of email archives was too much).

>>

>> For eg. with "This is an [example link](http://example.com/)"  

>> where do I put target="_blank" or its equivalent so it opens in a  

>> new page?

>>

>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

>>

>> Thx

>>

>> Tony