Hello @amoun, thanks for your contribution.

Just for information, target="_blank" is object of debate in usability, due is the page who "decide" where the user will open those links and not the user itself deciding how to navigate. As everything, some people like, some people dislike. With or without it, the links will work on almost all the browsers.

The official voice on tech stuff in this field is W3C saying this:

no version of HTML strict has ever included the target attribute

Full link to the page: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#target

As b2evo is XHTML 1.0 (target=_blank supported), everything goes back to the usability field.

Best regards!

mgsolipa Thanks

Yes I'm aware that it should be user pref, but this was for a specific site and a default [_self] would be better for general consumption.
Still the basis is that a post can open a new tab keeping the source open. Using back isn't always the best option especially when viewing large images on a slow connection.

PS I have updated my skin to be html5 where [_target] is once again a valid attribute :)
Quite a few validation errors I had to sort http://rogerlovejoy.net/blog/b2evo.php