So it looks like everything went well, easier than I thought it would be… And since I’m in a new place I made a few changes…
Favourites: Yes, favourites are now accessable (finally), just click on the star next to an entry and it should take you to the list of favourite entries…
Permalinks: I’m finally able to use the nice WordPress generated permalinks, so instead of this being http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/?p=1336 it’s now http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/2006/02/10/change-over/, though the original url will also work.
target=’_blank’: It’s something I was prone to doing for a very long time, but now after reading this entry at Airbag I’ve realised that forcing new windows is just so lame, so why bother… In this day and age, people can just open in new tabs with the click of a scroll button, so all references to opening new windows is gone.
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5 responses to “Change Over”
I have the same thoughts about _blank, but I still use it, because I hate when I am directed away from a site and don’t want to be (because let’s face it, some times we forget and just click on the link). I feel like it is my little blankie, and I don’t know if I can get rid of using it!!!
Yeah, saftey blanket pretty much summed it up… It’s kinda sad that I’d been using it for about 6½ years and it only took a few seconds worth of find and replace to undo it…
Hold on tightly, let go lightly.
I generally expect pages to open in the current window and so I Ctrl+click links if I want a new tab. I have Firefox set up to use (essentially) single-window mode so it doesn’t matter to me too much anyway, but I think the user should have the choice.
I always right click for new tab as I hate new windows opening unexpectedly. I like to remain in control….although I probably need to search through all my postings and remove _blank as for a while I was using it too. Oops.
Grrr, I decided to attempt to revert back to FF after I thought that it was killing my machine and switched back to IE (it was crashing after I switched to FF, coincidence? Yes :P), and now that I’m on the latest version, they’ve added a level of frustration which I thought I had got over.
At least I know where the options in IE are – FF is killing me with it’s pop-up killer, that even when turned off, carries on killing pop-ups. :P