Hello, Here's one use case....
In the online advertising business, ads are usually put in <iframe>s for security reasons. (So the ad can't tell what page it's on... get user cookies from that domain... etc.) So... if you didn't use a "_blank" for the target, the landing page for the ad would open up in the tiny <iframe> (instead of a new window). See ya On 4/26/07, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, This is regarding the valid browsing context names, used for the target attribute [1]. 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? _new is also not specced, yet it is widely used and treated as a magic value like _blank in Firefox. Maybe it should be specced the same as _blank. However, IE, Opera and Safari didn't appear to treat it as such, so maybe it's not needed. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid8 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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