[Sigia-l] Usability of launching new browser window?

Simon Willison simon at incutio.com
Tue Jul 30 17:32:11 EDT 2002


At 17:12 30/07/2002 -0400, Listera wrote:
>"Benjamin Protas" wrote:
>
> > You have to do special stuff to make links open in a new window
>
>You mean the difference between:
>
><a href="myURL.html" target="_self">Link</a>
><a href="myURL.html" target="_blank">Link</a>
>
>There may be issues with new windows but let's not create artificial ones.

Which reminds me, this whole discussion becomes pretty much academic when 
you look at XHTML 1.0 (and above), which doesn't include the target="" 
attribute at all :)




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