[jazzychad]

Sorry, but I have to disagree that it is always wrong to open links in a new window. There are many sites (and more to come) of the "web app" variety that carry a lot of state in the current window, and opening a link in the same window would destroy all of the state once the user clicks the Back button. On highly dynamic sites (like the results page on Twitter Search), navigating away from the page for even a few seconds will change the results when reloaded, so the user's "mental state" of the page has been destroyed. I contend that opening a link in a new window/tab makes sense in these cases.

[jncraton]

I agree. The web has changed a lot even since 2005 (when the article was written).