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mfBlank Plugin

If you have a website, one of the main things you want to do is keeping your users to stay. That's why, when you link to an external website, most people will add the attribute target="_blank" (new window) to the link. This method can be pretty time consuming, especially when you're not using a WYSIWYG editor. For more user friendly links, you could also add a suffix icon to show a new window will open. mfBlank does all this work for you! It recognizes outgoing links and adds the target="_blank" and an icon automatically. This way, you'll make sure to keep your visitors on your site. The script is very small, but can be really useful for your website. Are you tired of placing the target=_"blank" attribute to all links on your Joomla! website? mfBlank is your solution and it automatically adds a suffix icon to external links.

----- New in version 1.1
- Added back-end parameters
- Change icon color (Dark / Light)
- Add/remove hover effect
- Add/remove suffix icon

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2009-02-14
Reviews: 4
Excellent tool for your any.
But like the user of AlphaToolbar, I need deactivate the plugin for a widget which is broker with mfblank.
2009-02-04
Reviews: 2
I think all site's should have this along with JCE Utilities you can also force all outbound links to open in a squuezebox with some small hacks which is great.

I think this would be a good implementation in the backend to easily turn this on and off.

Another important change i think EVERYONE should do is add this line in the JS file to add a nofollow... (all nofollow plugins fall short, but this plugin works 100%)

Find:
this.set = function(obj){
obj.target = "_blank";
obj.className = "blank";
};

Relplace with this

this.set = function(obj){
obj.target = "_blank";
obj.className = "blank";
obj.rel = "nofollow";
};

Again, this added into the backend would be great!
2009-01-19
Reviews: 2
This is an excellent extension, but the JS needs a flag that can be used to deactivate it. It's needed for things like AlphaToolbar, which it breaks.
2008-12-13
Reviews: 4
Works very fine !
the only bad thing i can say is that the plugin don't display the icon in some other component like eventlist or fireboard (but the function of mfblank always works and this it's the principal dude!)
2008-09-06
Reviews: 9
Works a treat saves hours of work added open in a new window.
2008-08-06
Reviews: 8
Installed on J!1.5.4, works like a charm. The supplied icons look good.
2008-07-04
Reviews: 11
This is really useful, but it means that my pages no longer validate as HTML 4 or XHTML 1.
2008-06-23
Reviews: 3
I rate it a 5-star for most people. After hours of searching I, thankfully, found this solution.
The only reason I didn't quite rate it excellent is that I use Google translation on my site, and there is something in mfblank that isn't compatible with the way the translation URLs go out. I talked with the developer of this pgm and he is looking at it.

If translation is not mandatory for your site, choose this program. It's tops.
2008-05-21
Reviews: 3
This plugin has helpt me a lot. I had a encyclopedie with more than 3000 extern links. And they all open in the same window. With this plugin it was fixt and now they open in blanc window.
2008-05-03
Reviews: 7
Functional and hassle-free! :)
2008-04-07
Reviews: 6
very very useful. Dont now why editors dont have default "_blank" but this plugin does all automatic.
2008-03-06
Reviews: 1
What more can you say? Installs with no fuss and does exactly what it claims. This will rapidly become a "must have" extension.
2008-03-05
Reviews: 1
If you believe that an external link should always open in a new window, than mfBlank is what you need.
2008-03-03
Reviews: 5
Congratulations for this new extensions. I myself find it very usefull and a ~Favorite~ one!
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Kesepian
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
2008-03-03
Reviews: 2
Great add-on. After all the latest articles I made with a huge amount of links I can warmly recommend this plugin to everyone :)
Thank you very much.
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