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#26 2008-05-11 14:06:46
- elbekko
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Re: Open link in new tab
There's a difference between not including features that are better suited for extensions and displeasing the majority.
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#27 2008-05-11 14:08:25
- Jérémie
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Re: Open link in new tab
I'm talking years before extensions, Beko.
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#28 2008-05-11 14:16:54
- Smartys
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Re: Open link in new tab
Refusing to integrate private messaging and wysiwyg into core is actively displeasing the majority (at first glance of course, since it was the right move). I doubt very much you didn't knew that
Yes, but that doesn't mean that it was the intent of the action to displease the majority. The intent was (to quote Rickard) "to create a forum that didn't have all the fancy features like avatar gallery, post icons, polls, private messaging etc." One of the side effects of not having those features is that sometimes, a great number of people might be displeased. However, nobody went out of their way to displease people, which is what intent implies.
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#29 2008-05-11 14:25:38
- DavidONE
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Re: Open link in new tab
Leaving aside personal preference, W3C / WCAG provides a recommendation which should take precedence: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/SCR24.html
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#30 2008-05-11 14:35:06
- Connor
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Re: Open link in new tab
It wasn't done to displease the majority though, which is the point.
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#31 2008-05-11 14:37:30
- Paul
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Re: Open link in new tab
As vice president in charge of the front end I'm making an executive decision.
1. Help links open in a new window using the existing javascript or something similar.
2. External links get class="external" so people can script for them or style them if they want.
3. We do nothing to implement links, other than help links, opening in a new window. If somebody wants to submit an extension thats fine.
NB: Like all executive decisions it is subject to later review 
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#32 2008-05-11 19:36:44
- Ophie
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Re: Open link in new tab
Here's a solution - Make it selectable in the admin menu, it pleases everybody. Using the rel="external" is a good solution to be included in the parser.php.
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#33 2008-05-11 21:05:45
- MattF
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Re: Open link in new tab
Leaving aside personal preference, W3C / WCAG provides a recommendation which should take precedence: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/SCR24.html
The important part of that document, (in my opinion), states:
Applicability
HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0
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