[ale] target="_blank"

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 16:37 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
> I found that target="_blank" does bring up a new tab in Firefox, but 
> only a window in IE.
> 
> My problem is that I have a page counter on abc.html.  There is a 
> link on abc.html that points to def.html which is on the same 
> server.  On def.html there is a link to xyz.html that points to a 
> page on another server.  When someone finally gets back to abc.html 
> from xyz.htm through def.html, I do not want the counter on abc.html 
> to increment.  With Firefox, that is what happens, but not with IE.

IE is more aggressive about caching connection details and credentials
that Firefox (thus some of it's security issues).Firefox uses ech tab as
a session (I think, haven't looked in a long time - may have changed) so
a return visit to abc.html will be a new visit.

IE does not do "tabs" but a mutated thing that isn't tabs.
> 
> I agree that new windows can be vexing, but in this case, I think it 
> makes things easier.
> 
> Is there a way to modify the html so that the counter will not update using IE?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Bailey
> 
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