Just made a Google gadget from the Twitter widget code and realized that all the links were opening within the Google gadget iframe.
This is no good. A quick and dirty solution for this…
If you need to have all links within an iframe or Google gadget use “base target”.
To do this you will need to add a head section to your gadget immediately after the “[CDATA[” part and add the “base target=”_blank”
This will in most cases take care of the problem and make all links inside that iframe or Google gadget open up in a new window.
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Why are u the only one posting this as a solution…Possible SEO strategy in itself…
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cause it doesn’t work
This is really nice info.Thanks for such a wonderful post.