Re: Re: new standarts, target=blank

> "Tomislav Grabic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:bb9t5t$vvt$1-FogMEOs31dotat4ziPANHlKoq+OfwspIVIuBW6zZ0iQ@public.gmane.org
>> I just read this article:
>> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1041
>> if Xaraya is to support xHTML and this is the way to go if w3c
>> recommendations for xhtml 1.0 strict are to be met by Xaraya (and by
>> thus, Javascript is needed), what are users without javascript turned on
>> going to get out of this??
>
> Well, I have been changing the targets when I see them in the validation
> routines.  I am not quite sure what we can do there:(  I really don't like
> the idea of JS for just opening a new window, but what other alternatives
> are there?  Any suggestions?
>
I guess it's because of misuse of pop-ups and because lotsa new browsers
start using tabbed interface, so there is no 'real' need to open content in
new windows.

Possible solutions may include:

1) shift-clicking /cmd-clicking (right-click with 'open in new window'
option)

2) use transitional, not strict dtd

3) onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;" which doesn9t
work on some browsers, like IE/Mac, BTW

4) or to fool validator
http://development.incutio.com/simon/targetBlankExperiment.html

Some more links/resources:
http://www.uninetnews.com/xhtml/xhtmlversions.php
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml2-20020805/mod-target.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_targetmodu
le
http://aamcf.co.uk/html/attr