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I remember being so excited when I figured out how to hide the borders of frames and do a layout with nested tables.

Probably the one trick I learned back then that I still use today is naming the target in links. I remember noticing Yahoo doing it on their Fantasy Football setup so that if you clicked on the news beside a bunch of different players and clicked the same one more than once, it would only load the player into its specific window. Since I’ve always been a person that opens tons of links as I’m going through a page and then reads each of them after, it was nice to not have duplicate windows (tabs) everywhere.

Still works and to this day I never use target=“_blank”.



This is amazing, I never heard of that but will make sure to do this in future. Small gimmick, big use :)




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