Blather and Nonsense

Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents, while an interesting read, pisses me off to no end. Zeldman insists on encumbering links to external sites with a "target" attribute so as to force them to open in a new window. I don't mean to couch my complaints in the form of a personal attack, but I find this particular linking tactic to be both annoying and egotistical on several counts: first, it completely defeats the purpose of my browser's back function; second, it discourages me from clicking on more than one external link on Zeldman's site (since every link is sent to the same window); and third, it implies that Zeldman's site is inherently more important than the sites to which it links. Grumble, grumble...