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

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Simon Willison wrote:

> >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 :)

Apart from compatibility with XML, the XHTML 1.0 spec is very little
different from HTML 4.01.  In either case, target is not included in the
'strict' version but is permitted in the 'transitional' and therefor the
'frameset' versions.

Andrew