Comments for Digital Machina

Comment on How to open a link in a new window using JavaScript…the right way. by Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:16:16 +0000

Good post.

From the comments, rvl, whoever you are, I nearly fell in love with your implementation, but then it wouldn’t work for the thing I’m working on.

(Not your fault. I’m trying to get the Pin It button from pinterest to open in a new window rather than leave my site but the new window opens up blank.)

Neat though, anyways.

Comment on How to open a link in a new window using JavaScript…the right way. by rvl

rvl — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:20:50 +0000

Cheers. How about onclick=”window.open(this.href); return false;” — saves you having to type the URL twice.

Comment on How to open a link in a new window using JavaScript…the right way. by jjokin

jjokin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:11:42 +0000

This method seems to behave oddly if you click on the link a second time. I have used this technique, and my links open a new tab (in Firefox) the first time you click the link, but they open a new window the second time you click the link.

Comment on How to open a link in a new window using JavaScript…the right way. by Vekta

Vekta — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:43:46 +0000

Creating SEO links in JavaScript that are W3C compliant can be best achieved using jQuery.

Comment on How to open a link in a new window using JavaScript…the right way. by Fridge

Fridge — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:13:48 +0000

The target attribute isn’t allowed in strict document types so this method can not be used in any valid strict website.

Comment on How to open a link in a new window using JavaScript…the right way. by andy

andy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:24:15 +0000

Not that I’m any kind of expert, but I fully support this way of doing it. I’ve used the same thing to trigger jQuery actions many times, except using a hash instead of the URL because in my circumstance there wasn’t a URL to be indexed. Besides being more logical, the points you make about SEO and UX are totally valid.

Comment on How to open a link in a new window using JavaScript…the right way. by Brian

Brian — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:14:54 +0000

this is a good tip on a link with javascript. i never used ‘href’ and ‘window.open’ together, but i guess i will use them from today. thanks.

Comment on Curious coincedence, the definition of “Tetrical” by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:29:30 +0000

Steve, I have seen the top down 3D Tetris variant. Personally, I prefer the side view. Yes, if you build too much in the front of your stack, you can get into trouble with the view. But, I feel that it’s part of the challenge.

Comment on Curious coincedence, the definition of “Tetrical” by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:27:22 +0000

Randy, I’ve seen comments before about key presses being ignored which I haven’t been able to duplicate. Thanks for providing the details that you think it has to do with the rotate view function. I’ll look into that.

Comment on Curious coincedence, the definition of “Tetrical” by Randy Jenkins

Randy Jenkins — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:08:46 +0000

I really like it.

However, I think there is a bug. I occasionally have trouble getting the blocks to rotate. The keys presses don’t elicit a response from the game. Seems to occur right after I rotate the view.

Randy