by damonp on April 3, 2006
in Uncategorized
Hey all you people out there insistent on making your links open in a new window…
STOP IT!
It’s my computer and my browser. If I want your link to open in a new window, I will use Shift-Click (for new window) or CMD/CTL-Click (for a new tab in non IE browsers).
Several _major_ product sites that I visit utilize a new window link in their header menu to access their forums. That is so web 0.5. Like I said, if I want a new window, I can do it myself.
Small informational popups (like shipping estimate or information) are nice in processes such as an ecommerce checkout so my main window stays in tune with the order process. These should always be user initiated and not automatic.
Popularity: 1%
I am embarrassed I hadn’t thought of this sooner. Maybe I can blame it on coming from the Windows world where this type of thing would never work consistently enough to remember.
I open BBedit’s font pallete from time to time to increase the font size of a source file. [Going from 15" PowerBook screen to 23" Cinema Display makes a difference to my old eyes.] The font pallete is accessed via the Text menu item which ends up in the top left of the display. For some reason lately the pallete is popping up in the bottom right of the display. It’s a pain to mouse up left hit the ‘Show Fonts’ menu item then mouse down bottom right to adjust the font.
It just dawned on my to move the fonts pallete up to the screen top left, nearer the Text menu item. Of course on closing and re-invoking the font pallete, it pops back up right where I had left it, saving my mouse from having to navigate the full screen real estate again.
Popularity: 1%
