Question

After I upgraded to 3.2, the comment author links no longer open in a new window. How can I get this behavior back?

Answer

Consider This First

In version 3.2, we took deliberate steps to move away from spawning new windows, because it's becoming increasingly frowned upon by Internet users who want to choose for themselves whether or not to launch a new browser window. Most modern browsers provide an easy way for a user to select a link and have it open in a new window instead of the current one; so take the time to consider whether...

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Required: Plugins

I used to use the Lazyman's Embedded smileys hack for this. I'm not going to point you to it because it's more fucking work than doing smileys with macros. Trust me on this. Plus, it jury-rigged my site to take you right to the Individual Archive page when you clicked on "comments" from the main index - which I think sucks more than the day is long. I like the pop-up window. It's neat, it's tidy, it's now skinnable, and it doesn't take me away from your main page, which is where I want to be in the first damn place. All that back-button hitting annoys the crap out of me. I don't surf blogs all day long - so when I do, I've got 7 or 8 entries to read off the main page. I...

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