Get ready.
I’m about to lay out precisely and simply the most significant difference between Old Web (1.0) and New Web (2.0).
Old Web: Do we have to link? Well, we better open up a new browser window to make sure we don’t lose ‘em!
New Web: Our users are our trusted friends! Our product is so good that they’ll come back!
It’s that simple, folks.
And I don’t know about you, but while I love the new mutual trust between me and the developer, I still have my issues.
For instance, every time I click a link on Dave Winer’s Scripting News, I end up having to type the address bar back into my browser after closing out of the recommended site.
My muscle memory in my clicky finger is still PMS (Pre-Myspace).
It’s unfortunate that I can’t be weened into this new developer-user trust, because that would just double my confusion.
So I would like to announce to you, my trusted user, my last use of target blank:
4 responses so far ↓
1 monikamagdalena // Mar 12, 2008 at 5:13 pm
i thought this post was going to be about the intructions to build any furniture you might buy form target. THAT SHIT MIGHT AS WELL BE BLANK.
2 robertjwhitney // Mar 12, 2008 at 7:14 pm
good point, but i’m not sure the use of target blank is covered in O’ Riley’s model.
3 daveywhitney // Mar 13, 2008 at 12:02 am
Is that a fucking rick roll?
4 robertjwhitney // Mar 13, 2008 at 1:06 am
haha.
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