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Re:Is _blank (HTML) basically an un-necessary popup? on Sunday August 14, 2011 @05:07PM (#2884449)
Indeed, I am a Mac user and the blog is about tech. Thanks for the feedback, dropping the _blank.
Re:The Programmer Training & Talent Deficiency on Sunday August 14, 2011 @05:02PM (#2884437)
I would be interested to hear other people's take on this issue in their city.

Is _blank (HTML) basically an un-necessary popup?

<p>I've been writing a lot of blog articles lately and I usually add _blank for referenced links in my articles as to not lose my readers to another site, but then I thought, thats kind of unnecessary and here's why:<p>Whenever I am browsing an article and I open a new link, I always CMD click as to open the new link in a new browser tab anyway, so it's kind of redundant to put in...

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