On 14/08/2006, at 6:39 PM, Christian Heilmann wrote:
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.
I always thought it was because the target attribute is supposed to be used with frames: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/ frames.html#adef-target and frames are bad because (amongst other things) they cannot be loaded from a single uri.
Which brings me to a point: if your document is not within a frameset is it even legal to use target in HTML 4.0?
Later he said:
If you don't use strict and HTML you don't need to hack. The client doesn't care, really.
And Tony Crockford wrote:
The whole point is to use standards in a valid way, not find a sneaky way to get round the validator...
I completely agree with this. If you want to open new windows use a doctype that allows it - it's a heck of a lot quicker than messing around with javascript - although I advocate against opening new windows, it's annoying.
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