On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Joshua Paine <jos...@letterblock.com>wrote:

> "The target attribute for the a and area elements is no longer deprecated,
> as it is useful in Web applications, e.g. in conjunction with iframe." <
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-**diff/ <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/>>
>

Doh, that means i lied to everyone at work in my "intro to html5"
presentation a few weeks ago :/.


> Deprecating 'target' was a mistake of xhtml and html 4--it's back in html
> 5. (In fact, there's official support for the target attribute on more


It was a huge mistake. The idea was apparently that scripting could replace
it, but there are different policy/security restrictions with scripts
opening new windows than there are with anchors opening them.

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----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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