Clicking on URL in comment sig

[zoli]

Hi John,

I love the new ability for commenters to leave their name url ..etc info. However, when I click on the name a new window comes up with the commenter's blog, but this window does not have any of the normal Firefox navigation buttons and menus - so I can't move around in the blog. What I end up doing is reading the url from the status line, and instead of clicking it, manually type it in a new tab - kinda workaround, not too nice.

Is there a way:

a,) leave the browser controls intact?
b.) leave the browser default for links, i.e for firefox instead of a new window, it should be a new tab? (this one is less important than "a")

Thanks a lot

[john]

The links to a commenters URL are opened by a Javascript function called openWindow, which is automatically inserted into your page by the system. Since it is not editable, we can create a new Javascript which will open the window with more "chrome" and modify the comments template to open links using this function instead.

First, let's modify the comments template. Here's how you would modify the comments template:

1. Login to your Blog Admin Control Panel through the Login page.
2. Click on the Look and Feel tab, then the Templates subtab.
3. Now you see a list of the Templates you can customize. We are going to customize the comments template, which controls the structural display of comments posted to your weblog, so click Edit in the row that begins with the word article.
4. Now you'll be on a page listing the current comments templates (there will probably be only one). Go all the way to the bottom of the page and click the Customize button.
5. Almost there: Click the Go button to Copy the Standard template to the staging area. You'll come to the page where you can customize the comments template.

Now, to make some changes...

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