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

[Joe Ortenzi]

But that is exactly the point. The www is a different space than the  
desktop and web pages are not desktop apps (I fear an attack coming  
soon but I think most people know where I'm coming from here).
The help application is the desktop space/mindspace, the contents of  
a browser window is the www space/mindspace. Therefore you cannot  
compare them. The help application opens a new window because it is  
designed to help you interact with the application you requested help  
with. It would be pretty dumb to delete the thing that you requested  
help with to be replaced with the help modal.!!

But web pages rarely have that same relationship. You open a link to  
follow the train of thought through to that link, not as a parallel  
experience, which opening another window would entail. On the rare  
occasions when you do need to open a fresh window for a parallel  
experience, you can do so using a functionality and not a structural  
markup as long as you explain that is what will happen..


On Mar 27 2008, at 17:59, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

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

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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