I had the same question with the same use in mind: web applications.
What you're presumably driving at is that pages look to need be either XHTML 1.0 Transitional or Frameset in order to allow the target attribute. The question that follows from that, albeit somewhat academic at this stage, is where does that leave frames in the future specs?
I'm working on an application that uses iframes in it's admin section so I'm also curious about this, yet haven't been able to find a definitive answer.
Nick
Isn't that what XHTML-1.0-Frameset is for??
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#a_dtd_XHTML-1.0-Frameset
Well no, the FRAMESET document is the one which defines the frames, i.e. it would say that "left.html" occupies 25% of the window and "right.html" occupies the remaining 75%, but I'm talking about the code in "left.html" and "right.html" themselves. Those documents cannot be valid strict HTML if they have target attributes in the links.
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