Re: Re: new standarts, target=blank

"Tomislav Grabic" <[email protected]> Sat, 31 May 2003 22:26:48 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.xaraya.ui
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andy varganov wrote:
>> "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.

well, in most cases it´s personal flavor if one want to use it or not,
but at the company I´m working at, we always use target for opening
links to non-company sites. helps the low-tech users in most cases I
believe and keeps them closer to "us" ;-)

Tomi