NOTE: This does not help when reading the feed version.

This goes before the /head tag:

<script type="text/javascript"><!–
// thanks to randomwalks.com for this code
function targetLinks(boNew) {
if (boNew)
where = "_blank";
else
where = "_self";
for (var i=0; i<=(document.links.length-1); i++) {
document.links[i].target = where;
}
}
// –>
</script>

And whack this in where you want it:

<form class="hid" name="targeter" action="">
<p><input type="checkbox" name="targetbox" id="tcheck"
onclick="targetLinks(this.checked);" />
<label for="tcheck">
<font size=1>Open in New Window</font>
</label></p>
</form>

http://loucypher.wordpress.com/2005/12/27/technorati-tags-button/

In order to do this they offered some code to go in my template…I’m not sure I’ll use this as it still doesn’t help people that read the feed version of my content.

Here is an example of a using this.

Just working out how to fine tune this process for my purpose when blog drafting.

Only thing is that the label defaults to the name of the URL you type in…is there a way to type in the URL, and also type in the label?

Then the problem is that I already have the label (word/phrase) in my blog post…as I usually just highlight it click the [LINK] tag, enter a URL, and submit, which wraps the code around the label.

I suppose I could cut the word/phrase from my blog post, hit the bookmarklet, paste in the word/phrase, also enter in a URL, then submit, then copy this generated code into the exact spot my cursor is flashing in my blog post.

Another alternative is to use my blog editor [LINK] tag as per usual, the only thing as we know is that the “new window” part of the code is missing, so I could just hit a bookmarklet and it pops up a box with the pre-populated code: target=”blank”, I can just copy this into my blog post
…actually I can kind of do this at the moment anyway, just hit the bookmarklet, and type in any random key and hit OK, then I just copy the section: target=”blank”, and paste that into my blog post.

Thanks for the inspiration. I’ll be using that myself. It’s made without www just because I have an asthetic aversion to including the wwws myself. Hacked together from the tagging bookmarklets I altered on http://marshallk.com/bookmarklets

Hopefully this will work!

Do you have access to a post template? If you do, then you could save the link code with the target there? Otherwise you can use a base tag to set “open in a new window” as the default for your whole page, & then override any “same window” links with their own target tag?

You can also use the BBCode extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/128/