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Articles and resources about pop-ups and usability.

Added: 22 December 2005 Page views: 1,488 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Should Links Open In New Windows?: by Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz. Smashing Magazine, July 1, 2008. "No, they shouldn't. At first glance the decision to open links in new windows or not depends on the given site and the preferences of its visitors. Visitors of the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows than open dozens of links in new windows manually. Visitors of less-heavy-linkage-sites are more likely to open some specific link in new window to remain on the site and continue to browse through it afterwards. However, this is not true..."

Added: 3 July 2008; Page views: 1,220 Rating: 0 Votes: 0

Added: 26 July 2006; Page views: 785 Rating: 0 Votes: 0

Avoid Within-Page Links: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, February 21, 2006. "Summary: On the Web, users have a clear mental model for a hypertext link: it should bring up a new page. Within-page links violate this model and thus cause confusion."

Added: 22 February 2006; Page views: 1,318 Rating: 0 Votes: 0

This category last updated: 28 February 2006

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