Pop up Blockers and User clickable popup window

Is <A HREF="link.html" TARGET="_blank"> fail proof

[lgn1]

On our shipping screen, we have an option to open a
new window with a Ground Shipping map.

Since we are in the middle of the checkout process, we
don't want to redirect the primary browser, or clutter up the checkout screen.

We were thinking of using the old standard

<A HREF="FedExGroundMap.html" TARGET="_blank">

however, I wonder if certain popup-browsers will block
even user clickable popup windows.

I seen this happen before, but im not sure if it was because the webpage was doing it with some fancy javascript rather than keeping it simple.

Is <A HREF="link.html" TARGET="_blank"> still safe from most popup blockers?

[cws3di]

I don't know about "most" popup blockers, but...

I do know that the Alexa toolbar popup blocker considers target="_blank" to be a popup.

I don't know how widely used it is?

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[Coil]

target=_blank should be fine in most commonly used pop up blockers. If not.... simply put a little note that it opens in a new window. in your faq section or help section, have something like

Q: Why can't I open link X?
A: Make sure your pop up blocker is not blocking windows that you intentionally open.

or something like that.

[Barb]

I usually use the AOL browser and only on a rare occasion the IE browser (usual security reasons) and I have all the popup blockers on (with AOL and other programs) and I am still able to click on links that use the target"_blank function. In fact, I use that function on all my external links on my personal site since I don't want anyone to wander away from my site in the course of looking around.

I have yet to use Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, etc - so I don't know if their popup blocking features works against the target"_blank" function or not.