@bokehOct 12.2006 — #<a href='MyLinkHere' target='_blank'>click me!</a>[/QUOTE][B]Do not use[/B] target="_blank"
Always provide a meaningful name to your target attribute and try to reuse such target attribute in your page so that a click on another link may load the referenced resource in an already created and rendered window (therefore speeding up the process for the user) and therefore justifying the reason (and user system resources, time spent) for creating a secondary window in the first place. Using a single target attribute value and reusing it in links is much more user resources friendly as it only creates one single secondary window which is recycled. On the other hand, using "_blank" as the target attribute value will create several new and unnamed windows on the user's desktop which can not be recycled, reused. In any case, if your code is well done, it will not interfere with the user's final choice but will rather merely offer him more choices, more ways to open links and more power to the tool he's using (a browser).
@felgallOct 12.2006 — #Opening a new page is a behaviour of the page rather than content. That is why the target attribute is deprecated. The latest thinking on web page design is to separate content, appearance, and behaviour and use the language designed to provide that part of the web page design.