On Jan 15, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Francesco wrote: > Has the target attribute of the anchor tag been > deprecated? If so, how are we now supposed to specify > a target window?
Francesco, There are two primary uses for targets: frames and popups. Many people (myself included) are of the opinion that frames are generally unfriendly to your visitors. HTML, CSS and Javascript have evolved to the point that Almost anything that you can do with frames you can also do in a single document. For these solutions, the target attribute just isn't necessary. However, if you absolutely require frames, you can use a FRAMESET doctype declaration, which will still validate with the (deprecated) target attribute. There are some cases in which opening new windows (for which targets are also used) is a good idea. The example that springs to mind is Amazon's now-standards "What's This?" link, which brings up a helpful explanation in a small popup. For this, a bit of unobtrusive Javascript is almost definitely the best way to go, so target is again unnecessary. -- Matthew Levine (http://www.infocraft.com/) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
