{"id":504,"date":"2005-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/01\/04\/438\/"},"modified":"2005-01-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T23:00:00","slug":"438","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/01\/04\/438\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening New Browser Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/990530.html\">Top-10 New Mistakes of Web Design<\/a> is old (from 1999), but (sadly) still relevant &#8211; I&#8217;ve lost hope that sites like heise.de and golem.de will ever get this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer&#8217;s carpet. Don&#8217;t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management). If I want a new window, I will open it myself!<\/p>\n<p>Designers open new browser windows on the theory that it keeps users on their site. But even disregarding the user-hostile message implied in taking over the user&#8217;s machine, the strategy is self-defeating since it disables the Back button which is the normal way users return to previous sites.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox on the Top-10 New Mistakes of Web Design is old (from 1999), but (sadly) still relevant &#8211; I&#8217;ve lost hope that sites like heise.de and golem.de will ever get this: &#8222;Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}