Usability poll: What are your thoughts about opening links as new windows?

Written by Andoy Montiel

Does opening links as new windows make the site less usable?

  • It depends on the situation. (70.0%, 7 Votes)
  • Only links to non-html pages (ex. PDFs) should be opened as new windows (30.0%, 3 Votes)
  • Absolutely! One should never open links as a new window. (0.0%, 0 Votes)
  • Of course not. In fact, opening new windows makes the experience more satisfying for the user. (0.0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 10

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March 30, 2009 | Filed Under Musings

 

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4 Responses to “Usability poll: What are your thoughts about opening links as new windows?”

  1. Jovan on April 6th, 2009 9:20 pm

    Instead of new windows, maybe it can be new tabs instead?

  2. Andoy Montiel on April 13th, 2009 6:02 pm

    I totally agree with your recommendation. I wish that browser tabs was an industry standard. However, not all browser have tabs. :( 2 years from now though tabbed browsers may be more of the norm than the exception. :)

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