Amazon Kindle-Edition blogs now allow 'new window' links to be followed

AMAZON KINDLE-EDITION BLOGS NOW ALLOW SUBSCRIBERS THE ABILITY TO FOLLOW LINKS THAT ARE CODED FOR "NEW WINDOWS" ("new tabs" on a computer web browser, but not recognized formerly in the Kindle Editions).

This is a long-desired feature, and its absence in the new Kindle 3, despite its more capable web browser, was lamented.

  With this kind of link which is meant to bring you to another website via a new window while keeping the blog-website in place in the original window, we'd get a Kindle-edition blog error message instead, saying:

          "Web Browser could not open this link
          because opening multiple windows is
          not supported"

Now, the Kindle Edition blogs can now just follow links like this!

And you can get back to your last Kindle-Edition page merely by pressing the BACK button.

  (The image at the top is a screenshot of a page in the Kindle-Edition (UK edition) of this blog.
   The blog holds the last 25 blog articles as of that day.)

Amazon programmers were apparently able to enable this feature, finally, from their servers (which makes sense), so that no new software change was needed on the Kindle itself.

Earlier Kindle devices
  As a result, subscribers can not only follow links now, with Kindle 3, but I tested my DX Graphite, which uses software version 2.5.x rather than Kindle 3's v3.0.x and it worked for that software version also.  It, however, made me realize how much faster the website-response time for Kindle 3's  (UK: K3's) is, relative to how long it takes a site to load on the Kindle 2.

  I've always been patient with loading time on the Kindle because the experimental web browser is free.  I'd forgotten just how patient I was until I tried this on the Kindle 2 -- but if you're not in a hurry, this is now doable.

  Kindle 1's are enabled also.  I accessed the last Kindle blog received on my Kindle 1 and tried a link to a businessinder.com page.  Well, I thought the Kindle 1 probably was not able to do it, at least not in my lifetime, but after 45 seconds, the page actually came up.  This will not be what most Kindlers will want to do on a Kindle 1, but it's nice it was enabled for all Kindles, for the Kindle-edition blogs at least.

Twitter and Facebook links, not enabled in this way
  However, new-window type links are still not doable, with Twitter and Facebook.  Hyperlinks placed by users on those services almost always involve coding for the 'new window' (or new tab) process.  In these cases, there is just no response to clicking on one of those links.  Nothing happens.

  Since so many of us are on (costly to Amazon) 3G cellular network access when trying to get on the Net when outside our homes, I can see the lack of motivation to enable this capability ASAP for those extremely popular, somewhat addictive social-network sites.


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