Comments on: What’s Not Hot This Year in Blog Fashion Trends

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:17:34 +0000

Actually, this is a major complained-about issue. It also breaks web standards for accessibility unless you warn the user that the link will open in a new window.

With tabs, people are complaining about this even more as they think the link is broken when they don’t see anything – and then get angry when they find they opened a ton of tabbed windows behind the rest of their tabs.

It’s been bad manners for many years, and now it is out of fashion, whether you like it or not.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:40:33 +0000

Blogger blogs all make their comments forms open in a pop-up window. I hate it.

But I disagree on “link spawning.” I tracked it, and on my blog, when I have things open in a new tab/window, people come back to my site when they’re done(I can see, they then click on other things). But when a link brings a reader to a new page which replaces my content in the window, the visitor is more often gone forever.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:07:21 +0000

Yeah, funny thing about TechAddress … they started out as a blog which was scraping feeds, and now they’ve mutated into a Digg clone which scrapes feeds.

I’ve marked all of their trackbacks as “spam”, notified them in person, and wait to see that all of their “submissions” from the BlogHerald are removed.

Cheers
Tony.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:48:30 +0000

Agreed. :-) I have to go to the bathroom once in a while so this one slipped in but we got it!

By: franky

franky — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:59:14 +0000

Getting rid of the permanent Techaddress trackback, a feed scraper, under every post might become the new black.