I have no idea, I think it was a stupid choice, I believe the reason
behind it was that people should be able to choose how to open a link,
and forcing a new window removes this choice, and confuses the user,
because the back button stops working.
I prefer external sites to open in a new window/tab, I almost expect
them to.
Rick Faircloth wrote:
Now why would target="_blank" be deprecated without a suitable HTML
substitute, requiring coders to have to resort to js for the functionality?
Odd...
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Liam Potter
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:20 AM
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Subject: [jQuery] Re: [Attrib "external" not working...]
Except that target="_blank" is deprecated in xhtml 1.1, so to make sure
you're markup validates, you need to use javascript to make links open
in a new window/tab.
One way to do it is like this.
$("a[rel='external']").click(function(){
this.target = "_blank";
});
Liam Byrne wrote:
Maybe because 'rel="external"' doesn't have any meaning or
functionality ?
The proper syntax with functionality would be <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.google.com";>google</a> but that's just HTML; it has
nothing to do with jQuery
Liam
Lord Gustavo Miguel Angel wrote:
Hi,
Why this code not working?
<a rel="external" href="www.google.com">google</a>
url www.google.com <http://www.google.com> open in same windows.
Thank´s
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