Comments on: BBC World Service Widget Launched

By: C. papers

C. papers — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:12:48 +0000

If you want you visitors stay at your site you should change the html code. Just try to put “open in the new tab” and problem solved

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:47:47 +0000

Hi Zaheer,
Can you share a URL of the page you’re testing, and let us know the browser/version that you’re using?

By: zaheer

zaheer — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:10:20 +0000

This is really cool but I’m having a problem with the code. Every time I embed the code, a huge space follows the widget on the right hand side. I can only go up to 268 pixels in width. Can anyone help?

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:39:44 +0000

@Dean – yes. It would be possible for a blog owner to set the target for all links on their page, including those in the widget. But yes, for convenience, it would be good to include it as an option in the widget.

@bsuwriter – we are currently working on version 2 of the World Service widget, and we hope to incorporate an option for bloggers to have links open in new tabs/windows, to be released in the near future.

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:28:14 +0000

With a target=_blank you can force the widget to open in a new window… but it has to be coded inside the widget

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:37:52 +0000

@bsuwriter – thanks for your comment. I’m glad you’re using and liking the widget.

The widget doesn’t actually change the way that links already work on your website. Unless you’ve added some special logic on your site to force links to open in a new tab or new window (note that some users might find that annoying), then users will remain in control of how those links behave. They will have the option to open links in either the same window (a left-click) or in a new tab/window (right-click -> select “open in new tab/window”).

Being in control is certainly my preference, as a user. However, perhaps there is some merit in allowing website owners to force links to open in a new window, if that’s what they require.

By: bsuwriter

bsuwriter — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:19:50 +0000

Really great.

My only problem is that clicking news links do NOT open new page. Takes visitor out of my site.

How can I fix this?

I don’t really want to send people away after I work so hard getting them to come visit :)

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