Reading a bit more I saw validating as transitional was a bit
senseless. As my brother really wanted the target blank in his links,
I used a simple javascript, it is in
http://www.ramirocosta.com.ar/external.js.
And now I can validate (despite this important detail) as strict.
Just to let you know!
Thank you all;
Eugenio.
Yes, but validation is only a part of embracing a standard. Target was
not deprecated for laughs and giggles, but to promote the idea that
XHTML strict is user agent agnostic and simply does not consider
different windows to be an option. If you want to use target for
popups or frames you create HTML, so a HTML 4.01 doctype would do the
same.
How can ask browser vendors to support XHTML if noboby uses it as it
is intended?
In the case of popup windows, adding a click handler that opens the
window only when JS is available makes sense, as you can test for
blocking of popups and also change the window with JS.
This hack (despite the fact that it also would add a target to
internal links links like <a href="#content">) means you force XHTML
strict to be HTML. You might as well create a massive nested table
with JavaScript and the DOM and claim to have a table-less layout.
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