Alex’s Rocket

As you may notice using target=”_blank” breaks XHTML 1.0 Stric validation. And here you are a solution with jQuery:

Add rel=”external” for links that you want to be opened in a new window
Include the following jQuery script:

$(function() {
  $("a[rel*='external']").click(function() {
    window.open($(this).attr(‘href’), ‘external’, ”);
  });
});

But I agree that it’s annoying when link is opening in new [...]