Maybe your visitors don't want your site to open new windows for them... maybe you could give them a choice  

RandomWalks offers a little javascript plus info on how to put a checkbox on your page that allows your visitors to chose themselves whether they want offsite links to open in new windows or not.

I'm pretty sure that there was a discussion awhile back about how popup comments wouldn't work if you used this RandomWalk box.  Sorry!

Kristine

Personally I disliked sites that force a new window with their links, why?

First reason: I like to choose how I browse. Most browsers allow you to open the link in a new window if you hold a modifier key while clicking (control, command, etc - may differ per platform or browser) - this is built into the browser to allow the user to choose. Why take the choice away?

(Failing that people can right click/control click for a menu allowing them to open a link in a new window.)

Second reason: Tabbed browsing in Mozilla. I'd rather things open in a new tab, not a new window, again, user's choice.

The simple solution is for people to actually learn how their software works. Whether that will happen, I don't know...

(And if you think opening every link in a new window will somehow keep people at your site longer, which is the most common reason I hear for doing it, think again...)

This is a real simple one a button on the edit entry page next to URL that does the exact same thing as URL does but adds TARGET="blank"  to the link. It helps to keep traffic local when you link offsite
LI tags would be great as well
and a BR tag
and ....

can you tell I hate to type all that html formatty stuff?

Now that I'm thinking about it a template for that whole darn tool bar would be freakin awsome then I could add all the buttons even I could ever want  (maybe save that wish for the Christmas release)

Is there any conflict between the Random Walks scriptlet and the comments function in MT?  The one I had while on blogger did cause problems when I tried it in MT.  Guess I should try it and see huh?

Bob

what i did was i've edited edit_entry.tmpl to include target="_blank" to the url button. im sure with abit of edting it you can get your desired "toolbar"