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Can we make it so that links in threads open in a new window? I think the code would be easy.

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Instead of this...

...this

if that worked.

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

well it didn't, hold on

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i mis typed the word target, so

...this

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

In any case, if we put in the head of all threads, it should work (people won't have to put it in their links) anyone else think that would be cool?

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

my last post should say, if we put {base target="_blank"} in the head of your page, replacing { with your normal html delimiters...

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Obv it would be easy for Graham to do, but I can cope with right-clicking when I want to open in a new window. Some might not care for this anyway.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

well, now the thread is screwed. but I think we could make it work. WE would probably have to change the targets of the static links (tops and bottoms of the page) to ignore the new window target

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

well, true, but when you forget it is annoying.

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

And I was irritated then that the confirmation of that post appeared in a new window, leaving the one where I had typed it unchanged! That's not good!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

that's cause i goofed it up.

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

okay, the static links and button and stuff need target=_self. i try to fix this thread with a new base target

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

test

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

it worked

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it's better to give the user the option, g - apple-click opens a new window for me - maybe Ctrl-click does this on PCs? (of course this could conceivably be an option in your user profile)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i kind of like not having to worry about it when i click a link embedded in a long thread. Usually want to go back to the thread. Similarly, most free emails work that way (like yahoo mail) - any link in a mail message opens in a new window so your mail stays open too.

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The only problem w/ having links open up new windows is that it FUBARs folks that don't have the memory to handle 2 or 3 or 4 windows open @ once (or, worse yet, the processing powa it takes to spin up the drive and spit out that 2nd or 3rd or 4th window). Making it a user option (as Tracer wisely suggested) would be better than simply making it the default for all of ILXorvilleburgh.

PC users can simply right-click and select "Open In New Window". But they knew that already.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 26 October 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree that it's better to have the choice, i.e. keep it as it is and anyone who wants a new window can right click.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 26 October 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Shift-click in Windows IE or Opera, ctrl-click in Netscape (just to be awkward).

I quite often choose to open my links in a new window, but I get annoyed when links do so without me telling them to, although not so much now I have XP and so it doesn't clutter my taskbar. If you do include this option I'd ask you to make it a user preference rather than universal because I wouldn't want it turned on.

(Also make sure you do target="_blank" and not make the mistake that too many people make of writing target="new" or similar and assuming that since it opens a new window the first time it's working correctly. Argh! But then I don't need to tell anyone who can write stuff like this how to do things, I just felt like ranting about one of my many pet peeves.)

― Rebecca (reb), Saturday, 26 October 2002 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually I was JUST thinking - it would be great if there were a link to the new answers page at the bottom of the thread as well as the top. Sometimes when you get to the bottom, you don't have anything to add - so you either have to scroll up, or click BACK, and neither is ideal.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 26 October 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't really see this happenning, because it could well fuck up the HTML of some posts, but I suppose if it were optional you would accept that risk by enabling it.

(I did need to know that Rebecca, I hadn't done HTML for ages before this, and knew nothing of PHP or MySQL)

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 27 October 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

it would make sense to add ilxor navigation links at the bottom, maybe on the right side. i'm fine without them, but it's not a bad idea. i recently put ile & ilm new answers links in my opera toolbar so they are always on my screen.

― ron (ron), Sunday, 27 October 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I was thinking very simple - just adding a New Answers button right beside the submit one.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-three years pass...

Any idea why I keep getting this on my laptop for every embedded ILX video?

https://i.postimg.cc/9M9Hn5xg/ilx.jpg

This has never happened in the 15 years I've been here. (Even typing in the letters doesn't help.)

― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 February 2026 01:45 (three months ago)

Is it from YouTube? YouTube seems to be down right now.

― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 01:46 (three months ago)

I'm able to access YouTube--baffling.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 February 2026 01:48 (three months ago)

It was the VPN.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 February 2026 01:57 (three months ago)

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