Problem opening MeTa links in a new window in IE6.

June 12, 2002 9:01 AM

IE6, running on Win98SE. I have "open links in a new window" selected in my profile customization, but they open in the same window anyway.
posted by mr_crash_davis to Bugs at 9:01 AM (12 comments total)

IE6 running on ME here, my links open in new windows on MeFi, but in MeTa they don't. (I don't know if the customization affects MeTa or not...I'm just sayin'.)
And I still get errors trying to log out of MeTa. I have to click on 'log out' twice, and then get an error.
posted by gummi at 9:15 AM on June 12, 2002

I am not havening (!) those issues, but every time someone links to a comment, I get the top of the page, and not the comment at the top of the screen. And, in the last thread, there are all these instances of people yelling at each other, and every time I click a link, it brings me to the top!
posted by adampsyche at 10:18 AM on June 12, 2002

I never got around to implementing this in MetaTalk. It's on the to-do list.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:46 AM on June 12, 2002

Just to be clear, my complaint is regarding Metafilter, not MetaTalk.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:03 PM on June 12, 2002

And, in the last thread, there are all these instances of people yelling at each other, and every time I click a link, it brings me to the top!

Some of us don't know the link-to-a-comment-within-a-thread trick.

::: hangs head in shame :::
posted by rushmc at 12:32 PM on June 12, 2002

thanks matt.
posted by gummi at 1:21 PM on June 12, 2002

Rush -- copy the url from the timestamp of the specific comment, inside the thread.
posted by crunchland at 1:26 PM on June 12, 2002

Thanks, crunchland. I was thinking I had to go into view source or something.
posted by rushmc at 2:21 PM on June 12, 2002

Crash, does in another linked discussion? i.e., you click a "discussed before" link, and then links in that window open in the same one?

That's actually my problem; someone wanna help?
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 4:09 PM on June 12, 2002

Nope. Any link, new or old, front page or comment page, opens in the same window.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:18 PM on June 12, 2002

Scratch this complaint.

I logged out of MeFi (which I haven't done in...well, months) then logged back in, and now it's working.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:21 PM on June 12, 2002

Hmm. I'll try that.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 6:23 PM on June 12, 2002