On Apr 26, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
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Why is _blank still considered a conforming value? On IRC, Hixie
mentioned that there are some legitimate use cases, but didn't list
any. I've argued against popups many times before and heard many
arguments for them, but I'm yet to hear of any legitimate use cases.
If there are any, what are they?
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For most desktop applications in-depth help is presented in a separate
window, so this will also likely be desirable for Web applications that
do not consist of scrollable pages. (In those that do consist of
scrollable pages, help would generally be better embedded in the pages
themselves, perhaps as expandable sections.)
So that's a use case for popup windows, but not necessarily a use case
for _blank, because help windows are usually reused (akin to
target="myappnamehelp" rather than target="_blank").
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Matthew Paul Thomas
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