I see your point, Thom. The exception, IMO, is when you link to a PDF ..
the Acrobat Reader takes over the window and the only way to go back in the
same window is to use the back button in the browser .. not very good
practice, IMO. Most people would just close the reader thinking they would
be back on the page they left .. and they're not. I have seen many
questions from people who have done just this and lost the place they wanted
to be.
In other cases, I do see your point that users want to control those things
.. although I wonder how many people would know how to do that. Not
everyone who uses the internet is all that websavvy.
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Thomassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml
Poping up windows makes assumtion of the user's behaviour. I for one find
it very annoying when sites force open a new window. If I want to navigate
a link I open the link up in a new tab. Forcing the link to open up in a
new window doesn't make me stay on the site, it just makes me click extra
to close the page that I navigated from. If a site constantly pops open
windows I often just leave it.
I argue that it's best to leave the user to control these things as people
have very different habbits.
-Thom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml
I totally agree .. in fact just having this conversation elsewhere. How
can javascript be more accessible when those most concerned with
accessibility will probably turn it off anyway? Makes no sense to have
this removed .. I open new windows all the time .. for PDFs .. for links
that go offsite, etc.
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Horowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:44 AM
Subject: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml
I just read how a target=”_blank” is not part of xhtml
Why not. I can't imagine its better practice to replace it with
javascript.
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/01/02/targetblank-xhtml-10-strict-conversion/
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