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Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

Hassan Schroeder
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:10:34 -0700

Thomas Thomassen wrote:
Poping up windows makes assumtion of the user's behaviour.

Making assumptions about users' needs and behavior is your job as
a designer/developer. Which is not to say everyone makes the best
possible decisions. :-)

Not everything built with (X)HTML is a brochureware site; people
build browser-based applications, and sometimes even full-fledged
frame use makes sense (e.g. JavaDoc, for one).

As far as opening windows -- click on the Help menu item in your
browser or another desktop application right now, and tell me if
the help screen takes over your entire application window space,
or, just possibly, *opens a new window*. Wow. Maybe this *is* an
acceptable behavior *for some circumstances*.

Horses for courses...
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