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Subject:RE: New vs current browser window for PDF? From:"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- jaedworks -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:04:38 -0700
At 7:37 AM -0700 4/17/2001, Sherman, Bryan wrote:
>Along those lines, we have the PDF open in a separate window by using
>something like: <a href="BI.pdf" target="PDFDoc">Business Intelligence</a>
>
>By using the same name (target="PDFDoc") for each reference you avoid the
>problem of the user opening a large number of windows. When the user clicks
>on the link, a new browser window will be created only the first time, or if
>the user has already closed the "PDFDoc" window. The only potential issue is
>if the user wants more than one PDF opened at a time...
Which is potentially a major issue, since the user has no reason to think
clicking a second link will obliterate the information displayed by
clicking on the first. Very confusing situation, frustrating for the user.
Personally, I never use named targets twice for information dissemination -
only for web-based applications. And even then it's chancy.
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