Open page in a new window..

Question

I am making a website and I would like to make a few links on
it open in a new window. I know the 'target ._blank' code, but here
is my question....
If someone has a pop up blocker, will they not be able to see
a new window pop up? Is there a different code I could use so it
won't be seen as a 'pop up'???

Answer 1

Al Sparber- PVII wrote:
> I simply wanted to state for the masses that "DOM
Scripting" is nothing
> more than a non-standard term to describe certain
approaches a
> programmer might take in a JavaScript, and that the
approach really does
> not need to be named - unless one wants to make a point
or to set his
> script apart in some way from older scripts. It is not a
new or
> different technology.
After a night's sleep, i decided to respond to this
statement. Al is
certainly entitled to his opinion. But for anyone who might
still be
following this thread, as I will demonstrate, it is simply
incorrect to
say that Dom Scripting is nothing new. It really is.
But Al chose his words carefully. Is it new "technology"?
Perhaps not,
depending on how one defines "technology". But to spend time
parsing
that term is to overlook the larger issue that Al is making.
He has
argued here, and many times elsewhere, that those who
advocate DOM
Scripting are perpetrating some sort of hoax, suggesting
those scripts
are somehow better than other scripts.
I would make such a suggestion at all. There is an obvious
need for
both sorts of scripting. I myself have created many of each,
and each
has a perfectly legitimate purpose. But I do recognize that
they each
use their own sets of tools and techniques. They are simply
different,
one from the other, even if we have the luxury of using the
same
scripting language for both - just as use the same language
to write
poetry or prose, to write essays or novels.
Before getting to DOM scripting, let me begin by holding up
AJAX -
ignoring for now its merits and demerits - as an example of a
technique
that is (or was) new and different. It uses javascript to be
sure, but
what made it new and different was that it uses Objects and
Methods that
browsers did not (fully) support until recently. So it is not
the
javascript that is new and different, it is the Objects and
Methods that
are. In addition, over time, developers worked out better,
more
powerful and more effective ways of using them. Like AJAX or
dislike
it, it is new and different and allows us to do on the web
things that
could not be done before.
So too with Dom Scripting. Again it (usually) uses
javascript. But what
makes it new and different is that it employs Objects and
Methods that
modern browsers added only recently. They are new and
different. They
(or access to them anyway) were simply not there before.
Take a step back and look at DHTML. It was a valiant attempt
to do what
we now do far better with DOM Scripting. It used not the
Document
Object Model (DOM) but the Browser Object Model (BOM). It was
a brave
and clever few who could tame the wild and wooly
incompatibilities
created by each browser manufacturer with their unique BOMs.
It too was
new and different, as it was manipulating the BOM in ways
that had not
been done before.
Then, as a result of a large and vocal cadre of
forward-thinking
designers, the browser makers finally created browsers that
stuck
(some better than others) to defined Standards, and added
real support
for the various DOM Objects and their Methods. It is these
that DOM
Scripting manipulates, and it is these that distinguish it
from DHTML
(BOM) and non-DOM-Object-manipulating javascripts taht came
before. And
over time clever folk have figured out better and better ways
of using
it, with ever-more-clever scripts.
DOM Scripting is not rocket science, but to argue that it is
not new and
different simply ignores the fact that it is a methodology
for
manipulating Objects and Methods that simply did not exist
before. It
is based on a new and different paradigm, with a new set of
tools and rules.
Al Sparber wrote:
> does not need to be named - unless one wants to make a
point or to
set his script apart in some way from older scripts It is not
a new or
different technology.
As I've shown above, in fact it IS new and different. The new
Objects
and Methods that modern browsers support *make* it new and
different.
They open amazing opportunities for creating useful,
interesting, and
powerful web sites (that are more likely to be cross-browser
compatible,
too.)
One does have to take the time to learn the details before
diving in. If
you are interested in learning more (and I for one have
*lots* more to
learn), there are some good books, among them
Jeremy Keith, "DOM Scripting" (
http://domscripting.com/),
Peter-Paul Koch, "PPK on Javscript" (
http://www.quirksmode.org/),
and many, many more.
There are also a zillion websites devoted to the subject.
First you
might want to read the Wikipedia entry,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOM_Scripting,
and then perhaps
http://www.webstandards.org/action/dstf/,
http://www.w3.org/DOM/
and links at
http://clagnut.com/blog/364/,
to name just a very few.
E. Michael Brandt
www.divaHTML.com
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