… Also just found that – I think – my blog is not yet showing trackbacks / pingbacks. My bad!

mootools looks the same as normal javascript imo – especially that as there’s only really 3 functions in there that are part of mootools and they hook into existing javascript objects there are $ functions, but I don’t tend to use them a lot as they’re there as part of the core and are folded into higher level libraries.

I think though, agreeing with Jasper here, that external links should indeed open in a new window in almost all cases – but that’s just me

var externallinks = function(){
document.getElements(‘a’).addEvent(‘click’,function(){
if (this.get(‘href’).toString().substr(0,7) == ‘http://’ && (this.get(‘href’).toString().match(/^http:\/\/[(www.)]*do1\.uk\.com/) == null)){
window.open(this.get(‘href’));
return false;
}
return true;
});
}

Also (just tested), but the above code, as default, opens in a new tab not a completely new windows – at least on Firefox 3.x on OSX…

You’ll notice some of the links on this site have the above code applied to them

I much prefer to allow the user to control where they want the new link to open – as does most of the rest of the web!