Topic awaiting preservation: use window.open to get a new tap in mozilla (Page 1 of 1)

moin scientists,

quick and dirty. Is there any possibility, to open a new tab in Mozilla using javascript?

greets martin

(Edited by Meckerpoet on 11-21-2004 15:59)

None that I know of. I'd go for target="_blank" and leave it to the users if they feel like having the page appear in a tab or not, there are plenty ways for them to control that. Mouse gestures, holding the Ctrl key, the single window extension, middle mouse button etc....

kuckus

I'm sure standards-compliant hackers and spammers will find a way.

BMF

target="_tab" would be cool and all browsers should support tabs!

Personally, I've always found it ridiculous that a browser would support both tabs and separate windows simultaneously. Well, I suppose some users might find it handy for some reason to have different windows each with multiple tabs, but the choice to split some tabs off into a new window should be the choice of the user and not some web page's designer. I like tabbed browsers to treat *everything* as a tab - regardless of whether I launch a link in a new "window" myself, or it has target="_blank", or window.open is used - they should all open new tabs if I'm using a tabbed browser.

And screw the designer who wanted a certain size, unresizable window without toolbars. I'm the user, my preferences are infinitely more important. Open the url in a new tab, that's why I'm using tabs.

Er, anyway, in summary, leave it up to the browser what to do. The user will configure their browser the way they like it.


 

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Slime said:
And screw the designer who wanted a certain size, unresizable window without toolbars.

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I agree. I've seen too many sites - recently - that open content in non-resizable popup windows with no scrollbars... But where the content is far bigger than the window!

Sometimes I think they do it just to infuriate us!

Dan

When it comes down to a question of Maliciousness or Ignorance on the develpers part, I'd bet 9 out of 10 times it is the latter. Whether or not someone can be "Maliciously Ignorant" I leave up to your imagination...lol.