RE: New vs current browser window for PDF?

["Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- jaedworks -dot- com>]

At 7:37 AM -0700 4/17/2001, Sherman, Bryan wrote:
>Along those lines, we have the PDF open in a separate window by using
>something like: <a href="BI.pdf" target="PDFDoc">Business Intelligence</a>
>
>By using the same name (target="PDFDoc") for each reference you avoid the
>problem of the user opening a large number of windows. When the user clicks
>on the link, a new browser window will be created only the first time, or if
>the user has already closed the "PDFDoc" window. The only potential issue is
>if the user wants more than one PDF opened at a time...

Which is potentially a major issue, since the user has no reason to think
clicking a second link will obliterate the information displayed by
clicking on the first. Very confusing situation, frustrating for the user.

Personally, I never use named targets twice for information dissemination -
only for web-based applications. And even then it's chancy.

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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed -at- jaedworks -dot- com
http://www.jaedworks.com



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