A moment of silence for a great scene gone by... The wrecking ball has landed on the historic Santa Barbara landmark. The property and pool was host to countless ragers and truck barking for a good 6 year run, all after being the resident shaping hut to legendary wolves such as George Greenough, and others.
Caltrans is widening the freeway, so the property fell victim.
Ouch.
Zoob just emailed me this mildly hostile dribble without supplying a valid email address.
"WHY is it so DIFFICULT for you to have links in the blogs OPEN INTO A NEW TAB OR WINDOW? I Love the mag/site but, it is a damn pain in the ass to have to navigate back to the site every time I click a link. A good place to start would be (target= "_blank"). I'm sure that there is some great lengthy explanation as to why this can't be done but, uh...We do it flash/blogger/php/html/text/joomla/wordpress blogs and feeds all the time here in florida. Best of luck working that out..."
—zoob noob
Zoob,
No amount of clever (or stupid) tricks will change the fact that forcing new windows to open is disrespectful and hostile to web site visitors. A number of usability studies have shown that experienced web users will find this behavior annoying and that beginners will get confused by it. Best of luck working that out.
