Comments on: Mark external links and open in new window/tab (jQuery) http://blog.decaf.de/2010/01/mark-external-links-and-open-in-new-windowtab-jquery/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dirk Schürjohann http://blog.decaf.de/2010/01/mark-external-links-and-open-in-new-windowtab-jquery/#comment-50718 Dirk Schürjohann Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:10:24 +0000 http://blog.decaf.de/?p=979#comment-50718 Robert, thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure how to handle your question: You don't ask for a technical explanation, right? You're focussing on the theory part of whether to force opening external links in new windows/tabs vs. letting the user deal with the targets? Robert, thanks for your feedback. I’m not sure how to handle your question: You don’t ask for a technical explanation, right? You’re focussing on the theory part of whether to force opening external links in new windows/tabs vs. letting the user deal with the targets?

]]> By: Robert http://blog.decaf.de/2010/01/mark-external-links-and-open-in-new-windowtab-jquery/#comment-50710 Robert Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:32:48 +0000 http://blog.decaf.de/?p=979#comment-50710 Dirk, care to explain why you chose to capture the 'click' event and let it perform the (as far as I can see) default off-the-shelf event behaviour? I fail to see the need for this part: <code> .end() .click(function(e) { open(this.href); e.preventDefault(); });</code> Dirk,

care to explain why you chose to capture the ‘click’ event and let it perform the (as far as I can see) default off-the-shelf event behaviour? I fail to see the need for this part:

  .end()   .click(function(e) {     open(this.href);     e.preventDefault();   });

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