On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:42 AM, MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > > Janice Schwarz <[email protected]> > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:57 AM, MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > [devices that can't open new windows] > > > Such devices are buggy and should be repaired, then. Don't degrade > > > the web for everyone else because a few devices are buggy. > > > > To my knowledge, that's standard on mobile phones. It's not a bug. > > It's limit to what the technology can handle. And given the number of > > people using phones to surf the web now, that's an important > > consideration for standards. > > I'm pretty sure there is no such standard preventing mobile phones > from opening new windows because my aging nokia e90 can do it (since > one of the early upgrades - move to the link, left shoulder button, > "Open in New"), Firefox on Android can - but it's been a while since > I tried an iPhone and I can't remember if that does, but I'd be > surprised if not. For all the difficulty of fixing iPhones, there's > not usually that much glaringly broken on them. If there was, they'd > not be as popular as they are. > > So I still think it's a bug if a browser can't open a new window and > wonder what phones you've being using. Or can someone say what > mobile phone standard prevents new windows on links?
I have witnessed this on 2 Droids & 1 iPhone . This has been the behavior for both versions of the Droid, and the iPhone I used. Admittedly, I only used the iPhone 10 days before I sent it back to get a Droid instead, so I may be mis-remembering. It's been a few years since I used a Blackberry or Palm, so I don't recall if there was a limit on those. When the OS informs you that you are exceeding the maximum number of *allowed* windows, that seems more of a limitation than a bug. If you open enough windows on a desktop or laptop, eventually it crashes too. There is no unlimited number of windows that can be run on any system, and a phone has far fewer resources than a desktop or laptop. Hope that informs, -- Janice Schwarz GeekArtist Web Solutions, LLC www.geekartist.com Phone: (214) 302-7575 Twitter: GeekArtist Facebook ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
