Wolfram, I'm just writing the line <a href="address" target="_blank">name</a> and the addition of target="_blank" instead of <a href="address">name</a> is what makes the link open a new browser page (or, at least, that's what I think does it - I'm actually embarrassingly HTML-ignorant).

Can we modify the sample html code for links to open up a new page?

It's simple enough to right-click and choose the option that opens a new window. I'd rather leave the auto-linky-code as is and give users the choice. Of course, if a poster hand-codes a link, they should be free to include the target attribute if they want.

Thanks Nilly, I've bookmarked your post for future reference.

I'd rather leave the auto-linky-code as is and give users the choice.

Okay.

Oh, and Nilly's html knowledge is correct - including target="_blank" always opens up a new window. You can actually replace _blank with anything, but if you use that anything again, the page will load in the same window that opened the last time you used anything. "_blank", however, will always open a brand new one.

Thanks, Jon.

See, Wolfram, your new tagline is true already.

Hey, is something up? Images are taking a loooong time to load for me. (Ie, the Buffistas logo, the "post message" button, etc.)

Things are zippy where I am, Jesse.

t edit Is the problem just with b.org? Are other sites loading quickly?

Huh. Look at that -- pictures are slow in coming up for me everywhere. Ah well. Carry on!

Jesse, B.org images are loading wicked frelling slow for me too. But LJ is fast -- although you're right, I think images are slow there too. Weirdness.

I had that problem with Friendster and Internet Explorer. I'd open Friendster, and then every other web site's photos would load really slowly. I'd have to close down all the browser windows for it to go away. The problem doesn't happen in Mozilla, so now I always use that for Friendster. Don't know if it's been fixed yet.