I think you could safely say that the 10% of users (or whatever they are up to now) using Firefox are proficient enough to use tabs
Isn't the whole philosophy of using web standards catering for the future? I think it's a reasonable assumption to say that once IE7 and Firefox become mainstream that most people will be able to use tabs and won't need to be hand held through there web browsing. -----Original Message----- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikita The Spider Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 11:33 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] target=_blank On 8/14/06, Susie Gardner-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, but who knows if people are 'reasonably proficient with a browser'? I > think many many people are not! They don't care about things like that ... I don't know if the people who visit my sites are browser-proficient enough to know how to open links in a new window, but I'd rather not punish the proficient ones by taking away their choices. -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
