Shoutbox

I don't know if this is just for you special purpose (it sounds like it, because you're talking about some sort of app), but I think it's evil for the designer to make a page open in a new window. If I want to open it in a new window, I will do that myself. Useless new windows opening clutter my desktop when I'm not using multiple desktops. Not just technical people like me hate this, it also confuses people who are new to computers, like my mom. She wants to use the back button, but because some websites open in a new window, this doesn't work. And when she's done viewing whatever she wanted to view, she'll close the current window and then responds like "huh, there's another window here?".