[ale] target="_blank"

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Mon May 21 16:51:46 EDT 2007


it would involve a wrapper, but you could sessionize the page handling, only
incrementing your counter if the session hasn't been destroyed.

WMM

On 5/21/07, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> 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.
>
> 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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