CRAN website: link targets
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Gregor GORJANC wrote:
Hello R-masters!
This is R-devel, not the feedback page for CRAN/www.r-project.org.
R
R webpages do not AFAICS. www.r-project.org may, but that is not R.
and CRAN webpages use HTML frames for layout. Links to files such as PDF are therefore opened within frame. However, with PDFs this can be distracting
That is a function of your browser settings, not part of the WWW standard. Other settings open files in the assigned PDF reader.
if you have a small monitor, since left frame can be small for viewing PDFs with bookmark toolbar in the left in Acrobat Reader. It isn't such a bug problem with others i.e. (K)Ghostview etc, but it can be still small to look at. I suggest to add targets to all links to PDF files. If one wants to see that link will be opened in new frame/tab then target="_blank" should used, otherwise target="_top" will cause that PDF will be opened "over all frames" of current website.
A decent browser will allow you the choice of opening in the frame, in a new tab/window or in the application (here the PDF reader). If yours does not, try a better browser (e.g. Firefox). What I do think is desirable is for *off-site* HTML links (e.g. for the mailing lists) to use target="_top". That is certainly what my O'Reilly HTML book recommends.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595