How to Create Auto Pop-Up Tabs/Windows for External Links

Ever get sick of having to repeatedly set target out your various links? Well you should be, the target attribute is deprecated. In this tutorial we'll use jQuery to automatically render all external links to open new tabs/windows.
Auto External Links Function
It's really easy: just assign the function to all a by targeting leading http within each href attribute. That's it! Simple, right?
$(document).ready(function(load){
$('a[href^="http"]').live('click',external_link);
function external_link(e){
var $link
= $(this);
var $link_execution
= "";
$link_execution
= window.open($link.attr('href'),$link.attr('rel'),"toolbar=0,location=1,directories=0,status=1,menubar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=900,height=600");
return false;
}
});